Americanist Colloquium: Tavia Nyong’o

Event time: 
Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 4:00pm
Location: 
LC 319 See map
Event description: 

Tavia Nyong’o is Professor of African-American Studies, American Studies, and Theatre Studies at Yale University. His research interests include the cultural study of performance; black diasporic studies; Marxism and post-Marxism; queer and feminist aesthetics; and popular music studies. His books include: The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (U Minnesota, 2009), which won the Errol Hill Award for best book in African American theatre and performance studies, and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018). Nyong’o co-edits the journal Social Text, published by Duke University Press, with David Sartorius and is co-series editor of the Sexual Cultures book series at New York University Press with Ann Pellegrini and Joshua Chambers-Letson.