National Advisory Cohort

Rey Chow (Duke)

 

Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities; cultural critic of literature and film with attention to East Asia, Western Europe, and North America. Her interdisciplinary approach dwelves into the theoretical and textual understanding of modernity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and ethnicity.

 

 

 

Kandice Chuh (CUNY Grad Center)

 

Professor of English; research specialization is on Asian American literature and literary theory; gender, sexuality, and feminist/queer theory, decolonial studies, and transnational and global literature and theory.

 

 

 

Iyko Day (Mt Holyoke)

 

Associate Professor of English and Critical Thought; research focuses on Asian North American literature and visual culture; and her interests include critical ethnic studies, Marxist theory, racial capitalism, settler colonial studies, and queer of color critique.

 

 

 

Lisa Duggan (NYU)

 

Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis; Areas of research center on modern U.S. cultural, social, and political theory; history of gender and sexuality; and lesbian and gay studies.

 

 

 

Nadia Ellis (UC Berkeley)

 

Associate Professor of English; specializes in African diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial narratives and literatures, as well as cultures. Her research also stems into queer studies and the city.

 

 

 

David Eng (UPenn)

 

Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. Research focuses on American literature, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, queer studies, gender studies, and visual culture.

 

 

 

Rod Ferguson (Yale)

 

Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies; his research interests include the politics of culture, women of color feminism, race, critical studies, queer social movements, and social theory.

 

 

 

Macarena Gomez-Barris (Pratt)

 

Chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies; founder and Director of the Global South Center; interests include cultural memory, race, queer and decolonial theory, and the Anthropocene.

 

 

 

Gayatri Gopinath (NYU)

 

Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies; Areas of interest include transnational queer and feminist studies, post-colonial studies; and visual arts and performance.

 

 

 

Jack Halberstam (Columbia)

 

Professor of Gender Studies and English; Research focuses include queer failure, sex and media, subcultures, visual culture, gender variance, popular film, and animation.

 

 

 

Grace Hong (UCLA)

 

Professor of Asian American Studies; Areas of interest include feminism in relation to women of color; comparative and relational race theory; and political economies of race, gender, and sexuality with relation to race in neoliberalism.

 

 

 

Janet Jakobsen (Barnard College-Columbia University)

 

Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; research interests focus on feminist and queer theory, religion and politics, ethics, activism, and public policy. Jakobsen is a Principal Investigator for the Gender Justice and Neoliberal Transformations Working Group.

 

 

 

Joan Kee (U of Michigan)

 

Professor of Art History; her research focuses on modern and contemporary art from multiregional and crossdisciplinary perspectives. Her interests expand on applied art history and its intersection with extra-artistic phenomena and its relation to law and digital communication.

 

 

 

Lisa Lowe (Yale)

 

Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Director of Graduate Studies; research focuses on analysis of race, immigration, capitalism, and colonialism.

 

 

 

Martin Manalansan (U of Minnesota)

 

Associate Professor of American Studies; research focuses on the study of queer exuberance and pleasure in a necropolitical margin and urban modernization based on ethnographic fieldwork and critical approaches to everyday life.

 

 

 

Jodi Melamad (Marquette U)

 

Associate Professor of English; research focuses on the administrative power practices in relation to racial capitalist violence through “procedural,” “democratic,” and “technical” governance methods.

 

 

 

Tavia Nyong’o (Yale)

 

Professor of American Studies and Theater Studies; research focuses on the role of memory and history in black art and performance at the intersection of queer and trans aesthetics.

 

 

 

Chandan Reddy (U of Washington)

 

Associate Professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; field of research includes Asian American global studies, queer studies, critical race theory, and globalization studies.

 

 

 

Ramon Rivera-Servera (Northwestern University)

 

Professor in the Department of Performance Studies; research focuses on 20th – 21st century performance in North America and Caribbean related to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as well as its performance and expression across national borders vis migratory circuits of circulation and exchange.

 

 

 

Karen Shimakawa (NYU)

 

Associate Professor of Performance Studies; areas of research focus on critical race theory, law and performance, and Asian American performance.

 

 

 

Kathryn Bond Stockton (University of Utah)

 

Distinguished Professor of English; Research interests expand to sex, race, ethnicity, queer studies, literature with relation to Indian and English geographical regions.

 

 

 

Deb Vargas (Rutgers)

 

Professor of Sociology; Research includes Latinidad, Chicanidad, cultural productions, aesthetics through a critical lens of academic areas related to queer of color studies, critical race feminisms, sound studies, and chismography.