Performance Studies

Tavia Nyong'o Assistant Professor, Performance Studies Email: tavia.nyongo@nyu.edu Web Site: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~tan205 Office: 721 Broadway 6FL

Education

Ph.D. 2003; M.A. 2002; American Studies, Yale University
B.A. 1995; College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University

Biography

Tavia Nyong'o is a cultural historian with a focus on racial formation in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has taught courses on black performance, on cultural hybridity, on the history of the body, and on subcultural performance. He has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad, and has published reviews and essays in Social Text, Theatre Journal, GLQ, TDR, and Women and Performance. His  forthcoming book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Antebellum Genealogies of the Hybrid Future, investigates how cultural performances of gender and sexuality in the first half of the nineteenth century staged fears and anticipations of a racially hybrid nation to come.

Major Interests: Performance in the black diaspora, cultural studies, queer and feminist theory, the nineteenth-century, history and memory.

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.

• Publications by Tavia Nyong'o