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Prof. Dr. Tavia Nyong'o

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsEnglish and American Literature,General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,Art History
Keywordsperformance, African American, cultural theory, aesthetics, transnational

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityNew York
InstitutionNew York University
InstituteDepartment of Performance Studies

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Eva BoesenbergInstitut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2010

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2015Prof. Dr. Tavia Nyong'o: Little Monsters: Race, Sovereignty and Queer Inhumanism in 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.'. In: GLQ, 2015,
2014Prof. Dr. Tavia Nyong'o: 'Rip It Up”: Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard’s Sound. In: Thomas DeFrantz, Anita Gonzalez, Black Performance Theory. Duke University Press, 2014. 169-183
2014Prof. Dr. Tavia Nyong'o: Black Humanitarianism. In: Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Jay Garcia, Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy. SUNY Press, 2014. 187-205
2014Prof. Dr. Tavia Nyong'o: In Finitude, Being with José, Being with Pedro. In: Social Text, 2014, 71-85
2014Prof. Dr. Tavia Nyong'o: Race, Reenactment, and the 'Natural Born Citizen'. In: Dana Nelson, Ivy G. Wilson, Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. NYU Press, 2014. 76-102
2012Prof. Dr. Tavia Nyong'o: Back to the Garden: Queer Ecology in Samuel Delany's Heavenly Breakfast. In: American Literary History, 2012, 747-767
2012Tavia Nyong'o: Same-Sex Africa and the Fantasy of Participation. In: Women Studies Quarterly, 2012, 40-63
2012Prof. Dr. Tavia Nyong'o: The Scene of Occupation. In: TDR: The Drama Review, 2012, 136-149
2011Tavia Nyong'o: Have You Seen His Childhood? Song, Screen, and the Queer Culture of the Child in Michael Jackson's Music. In: Journal of Popular Music Studies, 2011, 40-57
2010Tavia Nyong'o: Brown Punk: Kalup Linzy’s Musical Anticipations. In: TDR: The Drama Review, 2010, 71-86