Performance Studies
 | Tavia Nyong'o |
Education
Ph.D. 2003; M.A. 2002; American Studies, Yale University
B.A. 1995; College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University
Biography
The research interests of Tavia Nyong'o include the intersections of race and sexuality, visual art and performance, and cultural history. He teaches courses on black performance, the history of the body, and subcultural performance. His book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), investigates musical, aesthetic, and political practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the web editor of Social Text.Affiliations: Social Text Editorial Collective, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, NYU, Executive Committee ASA, ASTR, MLA, OAH.
Fellowships/Honors: Marshall Scholarship; Jacob K. Javits Fellowship; Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; Graduate Fellow, Center for Humanities, Wesleyan; Graduate Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.
