CV
EDUCATION:
New York University
PhD, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, September 2011
Concentrations: Hip Hop Studies, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory
Dissertation: Heretics of Hip Hop: Performing Gender, Race, and Sexuality in New York City
Advisor: Tavia Nyong’o Committee: Ann Pellegrini and Karen Shimakawa
This dissertation uses critical queer critique, critical race theory and hip hop studies to show how New York City hip hop performance and cultural production interrogates, critiques, and inhabits gender, race, and sexuality, through its visual and musical culture, historical artifacts, and psychic content.
MA, Individualized Studies, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, September 2005
Concentration: Black Popular Culture, Popular Music and Gender & Sexuality
Thesis: Nobody Lives in that House: Anxiety and Rupture in Black Performance
Advisor: Tavia Nyong’o, Associate Professor, Performance Studies, New York University
Smith College
BA, English Languages and Literature; Theatre, 1998
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED
“The Rain Comes Down: Jean Grae and Hip Hop Heteronormativity,” Legitimacy in the Modern World. American Behavioral Scientist, January 2011, 55 (1): 86-95.
UNDER REVIEW
“‘Blasians’: Berry Gordy’s Last Dragon and Afro-Asian Culture in Early NYC Hip Hop Culture”
IN PROGRESS
Hip Hop Heresies: New York City’s Queer Interraciality, 1975-2005 (book proposal under review)
REFERENCE ENTRIES
“W.H. Auden.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“J.M. Barrie.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“John Galsworthy.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“Harley Granville-Barker.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“Christopher Isherwood.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“Lynn Nottage.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Starfucker.” Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing, Issue 19, 2007. Suspect Thoughts Press
ACADEMIC HONORS:
ACS Summer Teaching & Learning Workshop, Trinity University (Texas), 2012
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, English Department, Davidson College, 2011-2013
Corrigan Doctoral Fellowship, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 2005-2009
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, New York University, 2005
Vaid/Paras Gay Consciousness Award, New York University, 2005
Dean’s Master’s Research Scholarship, New York University, 2005
Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship, The Graduate Center- CUNY (declined), 2005
William and Pearl C. Helbein Scholarship, New York University, 2004
Dean’s MA Scholarship, New York University, 2003
Yvonne Sarah Bernhardt Buerger Prize in Theatre, Smith College, 1998
Dean’s List, Smith College, 1996-1998
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
Assistant Professor, American Studies Department, University of New Mexico, Fall 2013-
Visiting Assistant Professor/Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, English Department, Davidson College, Fall 2011-Spring 2013
Courses: Reading and Writing Queer Cultures; Race and Speculation
Adjunct Instructor, Performance Studies, Spring 2010
New York University
Course: Introduction to Performance Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Spring 2010
Pace University
Course: Gender, Race and Class: Representation in Popular Cultures
Adjunct Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Fall 2009
Pace University
Course: Gender, Race and Class: Femininity in Global Popular Culture
Lecturer, Performance Studies, 2008
New York University
Course: Masters’ Projects in Performance Studies
Graduate Assistant, Performance Studies, 2007-2008
New York University
Professors: Tavia Nyong’o, Karen Shimakawa and Barbara Browning
Graduate Assistant, Performance Studies, 2006-2007
New York University
Professors: Tavia Nyong’o, Allen Weiss and Ann Pellegrini
Research Assistant, African American Studies, 1998
Smith College
Professor: Emily Bernard
Dean of the College Intern, Theatre Department, 1997-1998
Smith College
Professor: Andrea Hairston
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS & PAPERS
Panelist/Paper Presentation. “Performing History, Expanding Race: Afro-Asian and Arab-Asian Hip Hop, Film and Spoken Word.” Association for Asian American Studies, April 2012.
Panelist/Paper Presentation. “Women of the 5th Element: Performing Subjectivity through Beatboxing.” Show and Prove Hip Hop Conference, March 2012
Oral Presentation/Refereed Paper. “‘Voices Carry’: Queer Dissonance and the Travel of NYC 1980s Hip-Hop Sound,” ‘Beat Street’: New York City Hip-Hop Sound Discourses from 1980 to the Present, EMP Pop Conference, New York University, March 2012
Invited Speaker/Panelist. Narrative: Social Imagination. Invoking counter-publics. Giving form to collective desires. Winning the Crisis: Alternatives, Possibilities, and Organizing for the Future, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis,New York University, March 2012
Panelist/Paper Presentation. “Secret Asian Man: Martin Wong’s Influence on 1980s New York City Subcultures.” Modern Languages Association, January 2012
Panelist/Paper Presentation. “Theorizing Hip Hop.” Modern Languages Association, January 2012
Discussant. “Queering the College Campus.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. UMASS-Amherst, June 2011
Invited Lecturer. “Hip Hop, Identity, and Heteronormativity.” Department of English, Norwalk Community College, April 2011
Invited Lecturer. “Blasians: Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon and NYC Hip Hop’s Afro-Asian Life.” Department of English, Sarah Lawrence College, April 2011
Panelist. “James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket,” Reel Queer Film Series, New York University, February 2011
“Show and Prove: The Tensions, Contradictions and Possibilities of Hip Hop Studies in Practice,” Performance Studies, New York University. September 2010
“The Rise of Queer Hip Hop and Pick Up the Mic,” Hip Hop Symposium, Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Dickinson College. April 2010
“A Hegemonic Shift: The New Politics of Black Performance,” Performance Studies Symposium, Department of Performance Studies, New York University. February 2008
“Hip Hop, Misogyny and Homophobia,” Black History Month Symposium, Princeton University. February 2007
Peace Out East LGBT Hip Hop Festival, Hip Hop and Scholarship, New York University. October 2006
“Music as Performance: Emergent Scholar Panel,” ATHE, Chicago, IL. August 2006
“Sounding (Off) Like a Boy: Jean Grae and Masculine Performance,” Hip Hop Symposium, Yale University. March 2006
“Nobody Lives in that House: Anxiety and Rupture in Black Performance,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI. January 2006
RESEARCH AREAS and INTERESTS
Performance studies, hip hop studies, Afro-Asian studies and critical race theory, queer theory/studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, transnational popular culture, graphic novels, visual studies, music production.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & SERVICE
Modern Languages Association, 2005-present; American Studies Association 2009-present; Popular Music Studies Association 2011; Association of Asian American Studies 2011; American Musicological Society, 2008-2010; Africana Studies Program Working Group (Davidson College); Peer Reviewer, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. New York, NY: Routledge.
LANGUAGES
English: native speaker; French: working knowledge; Spanish: working knowledge
FILM
The Scar Project, 2010 (Featured Artist)
Pick Up the Mic: Queer Hip Hop, 2005 (Featured Artist)
The Ski Trip, 2004 (First Assistant Director, Dramaturg)
SELECTED LIVE PERFORMANCES
Show and Prove, New York University, September 2010
Hip Hop in Action, Dickinson College, April 2010
Requiem for W, Overture for O, Brooklyn, NY, January 2009
Rivers of Honey, WOW Café, NY, NY, September 2008
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Brooklyn, NY, August 2008
Cattyshack, Brooklyn, NY, January, 2008
Toronto Pride, Toronto, Canada, July, 2007
Peace Out East, Brooklyn, NY, October, 2006
Toronto Film Festival, Varsity Theatre, September, Toronto, Canada, 2005
Peace Out East, Nuyorican Poets Café, July, NY, NY, 2005
MUSIC & CONFERENCE PRODUCTION
Writer and co-producer, Untitled solo album (in production), 2011
Co-producer; Writer, The Digm and the Dutch, Phat Family Records, NY, NY, 2005-2007
Curator and Producer, Peace Out East LGBT Hip Hop Festival, July, NY, NY, 2004-2007
Co-curator and Producer, Word:Life-Emcees and Poets in Da Life series, Brooklyn/NY, NY 2003
Co-producer; Writer, B.Q.E.-The EP, Phat Family Records, NY, NY, 2003
CV
EDUCATION:
New York University
PhD, Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, September 2011
Concentrations: Hip Hop Studies, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory
Dissertation: Heretics of Hip Hop: Performing Gender, Race, and Sexuality in New York City
Advisor: Tavia Nyong’o Committee: Ann Pellegrini and Karen Shimakawa
This dissertation uses critical queer critique, critical race theory and hip hop studies to show how New York City hip hop performance and cultural production interrogates, critiques, and inhabits gender, race, and sexuality, through its visual and musical culture, historical artifacts, and psychic content.
MA, Individualized Studies, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, September 2005
Concentration: Black Popular Culture, Popular Music and Gender & Sexuality
Thesis: Nobody Lives in that House: Anxiety and Rupture in Black Performance
Advisor: Tavia Nyong’o, Associate Professor, Performance Studies, New York University
Smith College
BA, English Languages and Literature; Theatre, 1998
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED
“The Rain Comes Down: Jean Grae and Hip Hop Heteronormativity,” Legitimacy in the Modern World. American Behavioral Scientist, January 2011, 55 (1): 86-95.
UNDER REVIEW
“‘Blasians’: Berry Gordy’s Last Dragon and Afro-Asian Culture in Early NYC Hip Hop Culture”
IN PROGRESS
Hip Hop Heresies: New York City’s Queer Interraciality, 1975-2005 (book proposal under review)
REFERENCE ENTRIES
“W.H. Auden.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“J.M. Barrie.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“John Galsworthy.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“Harley Granville-Barker.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“Christopher Isherwood.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
“Lynn Nottage.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody and Every Sprinchorn, Columbia University Press, 2007.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Starfucker.” Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing, Issue 19, 2007. Suspect Thoughts Press
ACADEMIC HONORS:
ACS Summer Teaching & Learning Workshop, Trinity University (Texas), 2012
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, English Department, Davidson College, 2011-2013
Corrigan Doctoral Fellowship, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 2005-2009
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, New York University, 2005
Vaid/Paras Gay Consciousness Award, New York University, 2005
Dean’s Master’s Research Scholarship, New York University, 2005
Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship, The Graduate Center- CUNY (declined), 2005
William and Pearl C. Helbein Scholarship, New York University, 2004
Dean’s MA Scholarship, New York University, 2003
Yvonne Sarah Bernhardt Buerger Prize in Theatre, Smith College, 1998
Dean’s List, Smith College, 1996-1998
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
Assistant Professor, American Studies Department, University of New Mexico, Fall 2013-
Visiting Assistant Professor/Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, English Department, Davidson College, Fall 2011-Spring 2013
Courses: Reading and Writing Queer Cultures; Race and Speculation
Adjunct Instructor, Performance Studies, Spring 2010
New York University
Course: Introduction to Performance Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Spring 2010
Pace University
Course: Gender, Race and Class: Representation in Popular Cultures
Adjunct Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Fall 2009
Pace University
Course: Gender, Race and Class: Femininity in Global Popular Culture
Lecturer, Performance Studies, 2008
New York University
Course: Masters’ Projects in Performance Studies
Graduate Assistant, Performance Studies, 2007-2008
New York University
Professors: Tavia Nyong’o, Karen Shimakawa and Barbara Browning
Graduate Assistant, Performance Studies, 2006-2007
New York University
Professors: Tavia Nyong’o, Allen Weiss and Ann Pellegrini
Research Assistant, African American Studies, 1998
Smith College
Professor: Emily Bernard
Dean of the College Intern, Theatre Department, 1997-1998
Smith College
Professor: Andrea Hairston
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS & PAPERS
Panelist/Paper Presentation. “Performing History, Expanding Race: Afro-Asian and Arab-Asian Hip Hop, Film and Spoken Word.” Association for Asian American Studies, April 2012.
Panelist/Paper Presentation. “Women of the 5th Element: Performing Subjectivity through Beatboxing.” Show and Prove Hip Hop Conference, March 2012
Oral Presentation/Refereed Paper. “‘Voices Carry’: Queer Dissonance and the Travel of NYC 1980s Hip-Hop Sound,” ‘Beat Street’: New York City Hip-Hop Sound Discourses from 1980 to the Present, EMP Pop Conference, New York University, March 2012
Invited Speaker/Panelist. Narrative: Social Imagination. Invoking counter-publics. Giving form to collective desires. Winning the Crisis: Alternatives, Possibilities, and Organizing for the Future, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis,New York University, March 2012
Panelist/Paper Presentation. “Secret Asian Man: Martin Wong’s Influence on 1980s New York City Subcultures.” Modern Languages Association, January 2012
Panelist/Paper Presentation. “Theorizing Hip Hop.” Modern Languages Association, January 2012
Discussant. “Queering the College Campus.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. UMASS-Amherst, June 2011
Invited Lecturer. “Hip Hop, Identity, and Heteronormativity.” Department of English, Norwalk Community College, April 2011
Invited Lecturer. “Blasians: Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon and NYC Hip Hop’s Afro-Asian Life.” Department of English, Sarah Lawrence College, April 2011
Panelist. “James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket,” Reel Queer Film Series, New York University, February 2011
“Show and Prove: The Tensions, Contradictions and Possibilities of Hip Hop Studies in Practice,” Performance Studies, New York University. September 2010
“The Rise of Queer Hip Hop and Pick Up the Mic,” Hip Hop Symposium, Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Dickinson College. April 2010
“A Hegemonic Shift: The New Politics of Black Performance,” Performance Studies Symposium, Department of Performance Studies, New York University. February 2008
“Hip Hop, Misogyny and Homophobia,” Black History Month Symposium, Princeton University. February 2007
Peace Out East LGBT Hip Hop Festival, Hip Hop and Scholarship, New York University. October 2006
“Music as Performance: Emergent Scholar Panel,” ATHE, Chicago, IL. August 2006
“Sounding (Off) Like a Boy: Jean Grae and Masculine Performance,” Hip Hop Symposium, Yale University. March 2006
“Nobody Lives in that House: Anxiety and Rupture in Black Performance,” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI. January 2006
RESEARCH AREAS and INTERESTS
Performance studies, hip hop studies, Afro-Asian studies and critical race theory, queer theory/studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, transnational popular culture, graphic novels, visual studies, music production.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & SERVICE
Modern Languages Association, 2005-present; American Studies Association 2009-present; Popular Music Studies Association 2011; Association of Asian American Studies 2011; American Musicological Society, 2008-2010; Africana Studies Program Working Group (Davidson College); Peer Reviewer, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. New York, NY: Routledge.
LANGUAGES
English: native speaker; French: working knowledge; Spanish: working knowledge
FILM
The Scar Project, 2010 (Featured Artist)
Pick Up the Mic: Queer Hip Hop, 2005 (Featured Artist)
The Ski Trip, 2004 (First Assistant Director, Dramaturg)
SELECTED LIVE PERFORMANCES
Show and Prove, New York University, September 2010
Hip Hop in Action, Dickinson College, April 2010
Requiem for W, Overture for O, Brooklyn, NY, January 2009
Rivers of Honey, WOW Café, NY, NY, September 2008
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Brooklyn, NY, August 2008
Cattyshack, Brooklyn, NY, January, 2008
Toronto Pride, Toronto, Canada, July, 2007
Peace Out East, Brooklyn, NY, October, 2006
Toronto Film Festival, Varsity Theatre, September, Toronto, Canada, 2005
Peace Out East, Nuyorican Poets Café, July, NY, NY, 2005
MUSIC & CONFERENCE PRODUCTION
Writer and co-producer, Untitled solo album (in production), 2011
Co-producer; Writer, The Digm and the Dutch, Phat Family Records, NY, NY, 2005-2007
Curator and Producer, Peace Out East LGBT Hip Hop Festival, July, NY, NY, 2004-2007
Co-curator and Producer, Word:Life-Emcees and Poets in Da Life series, Brooklyn/NY, NY 2003
Co-producer; Writer, B.Q.E.-The EP, Phat Family Records, NY, NY, 2003
