JASBIR K PUAR
Women’s & Gender Studies Rutgers University 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
Education:
1999 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Ethnic Studies. Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Dissertation: "Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad: Modern Bodies, National Queers."
1994 M.A. University of York, England, Women’s Studies.
Thesis: "Identity, Racism, and Culture: Second Generation Sikh Women and Oppositionally Active Whiteness." (Distinction Awarded)
1989 B.A. Rutgers University, Economics and German.
Current Appointment:
2017- Full Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
2014- Graduate Program Director, Women’s and Gender Studies
Other Professional Appointments:
2007-17 Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University.
2014 Visiting Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden, April-May.
2012-13 Edward Said Chair of American Studies, American University of Beirut
2011 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany, May-June.
2009 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, Spring.
2000-07 Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University.
2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University, Fall.
ACADEMIC HONORS
Awards:
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2016 Modern Languages Association GL/Q Caucus Crompton-Noll Award for Best Essay in Lesbian and Gay Studies
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Teaching Award (Doctorate Level)
2013 Modern Languages Association GL/Q Caucus Michael Lynch Service Award
Robert Sutherland Visitorship Award, Queens University
2011 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, The Graduate School, Rutgers University.
2007 Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award for Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times.
Fellowships:
2018-2019 Palestinian American Research Council Fellowship 2013-2014 Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University 2005-2006 IRW Fellowship, Diaspora and Migration, Rutgers University. 2001-2002 IRW/IWL Fellowship, Gender-Race-Ethnicity in Local and Global Contexts, Rutgers University. 1999-2000 Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. 1998-1999 Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship. Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley. 1994-1998 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley.
Grants:
2015 Rutgers Research Council Grant 2004 Rutgers Research Council Grant 2002 Ford Foundation Grant 2001 Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellows Grant. 1997 Center for South Asian Studies Travel Award, UC Berkeley. Humanities Graduate Research Grant, UC Berkeley. 1996 Center for South Asian Studies Travel Award, UC Berkeley. 1995 Caribbean Field Research Grant Award, Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley. 1993 ERASMUS Award for study at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
(2019) Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts
2017 The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Duke University Press.
2017 10th anniversary reissue of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, with Foreword by Tavia
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Nyong’o and new Postscript, Duke University Press.
2007 Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Duke University Press.
----TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH: Articulaciones Terroristas: Homonacionalismo en tiempos queer, Ediciones Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2017. ----REDACTED/TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH: Homonationalisme. Politiques queers après le 11 Septembre, Editions Amsterdam, translated by Judy Minx, Maxime Cervulle. 2012. ___WINNER, BEST CULTURAL STUDIES BOOK AWARD: Association for Asian American Studies, 2007.
Series Editor:
2016-- Anima, co-edited with Mel Chen, Duke University Press
Reprints and Translations from Terrorist Assemblages (2007 Edition):
2016 Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, Danish translation of Introduction forthcoming. 2013 Homonationalisme et Biopolitique, Cahiers du Genre, 54 (2013): 151-185. 2011 "South Park" i pakistański pasyw w skórze, December 11, 2011. http://lewica.pl/?id=25557&tytul=Jasbir-Puar%3A-%27South-Park%27-i-pakista%F1ski-pasyw-w- sk%F3rze
“‘The Turban is Not A Hat’: Queer Diaspora and Practices of Profiling,” Beyond Biopolitics, edited by Patricia Clough and Craig Wilse, Duke University Press, 2011: 65-105.
“Abu Ghraib and U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism,” Works and Days 57/58: vol. 29, 2011: 115-142.
2009 “Queere Zeiten, Terroristische Assemblagen,” in Gabriele Dientze, Claudia Brunner, and Edith Wenzel, eds, Kritik des Okzidentalismus, Bielefeld: transcript, 2009: 271-294.
2008 “‘The Turban is Not A Hat’: Queer Diaspora and Practices of Profiling,” Sikh Formations, vol 4 (1) June 2008: 47-91.
“U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism: Feminists and Queers in the Service of Empire,” in Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism,” Chandra Mohanty et al. eds. London: Zed Books, 2008:47-55.
“Homonationalism and Biopolitics,” in Out of Place, Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake, eds., York: Raw Nerve Books, 2008.
Edited Collections:
2019 “What’s Left of Queer Theory,” co-edited with David Eng, forthcoming in Social Text
2012 “Viral,” co-edited with Patricia Clough, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 40 Nos 1-2, Spring/Summer 2012.
2011 “Interspecies,” co-edited with Julie Livingston, Social Text 106, Vol. 29, No 1, Spring 2011.
2003 “Sexuality and Space,” co-edited with Louisa Schein and Dereka Rushbrook, Environment and Planning D:
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Society and Space, vol. 21 no. 4, 2003.
2002 “Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization” guest editor, double issue, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 8(1-2) Winter 2002.
Peer Reviewed Articles:
2016 "Queer Theory and Permanent War," co-authored with Maya Mikdashi, GLQ: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, 22:2 (2016): 215-222.
2015 “’The Right to Maim’: Inhumanist Biopolitics and Palestine,” Borderlands Vol 14 No 1, 2015.
---TRANSLATED INTO KOREAN: Literary Criticism Today, ed. Sunghee Choi, 2017.
“Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled,” Social Text 33 (3 124): 45-73. ---WINNER, CROMPTON-NOLL BEST ESSAY AWARD: GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Languages Association
2014 “Reading Religion Back into Terrorist Assemblages: Author’s Response,” Culture and Religion, 15.2 (2014): 1- 13.
2013 “Homonationalism As Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities,” Jindal Global Legal Studies, 4.2 (November 2013): 23-43.
---TRANSLATED INTO PORTUGUESE: “Homonacionalismo como mosaico: viagens virais, sexualidades afetivas,” Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais, v. 3, n. 1: 297-318
---REPRINTED in The Cyprus Dossier, No. 7, August 2014.
“Rethinking Homonationalism,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45.2 (May 2013): 336-39.
2012 “Precarity Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, Bojana Cvejić, Isabell Lorey, Jasbir Puar, and Ana Vujanović,” in Theater Drama Review 56.4/T216 (Winter 2012): 163-177.
“Viral: An Introduction,” co-authored with Patricia Clough, Women’s Studies Quarterly, 40.1/2, (Spring/Summer 2012): 13-26.
“’I’d Rather Be A Cyborg Than a Goddess’: Becoming-Intersectional of Assemblage Theory,” PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2.1 (2012): 49-66.
---REPRINTED in Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, 4th Edition edited by Seung- Kyung Kim and Carole McCann. NY: Routledge, 2016
---REPRINTED in Literary Theory: An Anthology, 3rd Edition edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. London: John Wiley and Sons, 2016
2011 “The Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Sensation, Switchpoints,” GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 18.1 (Fall 2011): 149-158.
----REPRINTED in Lennard J. Davis, The Disability Studies Reader, 4th edition, Routledge, 2012.
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“Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking about the Sexual Politics of Israel,” Feminist Legal Studies, 19.2
---REPRINTED in Jana Husman et al, eds., Fundamentalism and Gender, Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2013: 190-204.
“Interspecies: An Introduction,” co-authored with Julie Livingston, Social Text 106 (Spring 2011): 3-14.
2010 “Ecologies of Sex, Sensation, and Slow Death,” Social Text Web, November 22, 2010. http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/2010/11/ecologies-of-sex-sensation-and-slow-death.php
2009 “Affect” co-authored with Ann Pellegrini, Social Text 100 27.3 (Fall 2009): 35-38.
“Prognosis Time: Towards a Geopolitics of Affect, Debility, and Capacity,” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 19.2 (2009): 161-172.
---TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN: “Die Zeit der Prognose,” in Kathrin Peters, Andrea Seier, eds., Gender and Medien-Reader, Diaphanes, 557-772: 2016.
“Chutney to Queer and Back: Trinidad 1995-1998,” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 3 (November 2009): 1-10.
2006 “Mapping U.S. Homonormativities,” Gender, Place, Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol 13, no. 1, February 2006: 67-88.
2005 “Queer Times, Queer Assemblages” Social Text vol 23, no. 3-4, Fall 2005: 121-140.
---REPRINTED in Ruthann Robson, ed., Sexuality and Law: Sexual Freedom III, Ashgate, 2011.
---REPRINTED in Donald Hall and Annemarie Jagose, eds., The Routledge Queer Studies Reader, Routledge, 2012.
“On Torture: Abu Ghraib,” Radical History Review 93 (1) Fall 2005: 13-38.
---REPRINTED in Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean, Feminist and Queer Information Studies, Litwin Books, 2013.
2004 “Remaking a Model Minority: Perverse Projectiles under the Spectre of Counter-Terrorism” co-authored with Amit Rai, Social Text 80 22.3 (Fall 2004): 75-104.
“Abu Ghraib: Arguing Against Exceptionalism,” Feminist Studies 30.2 (Summer 2004): 1-14.
---REPRINTED in Barbara Balliet, ed, Women, Culture and Society, 5th edition, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2007.
2003 “Sexuality and space: queering geographies of globalization,” co-authored with Dereka Rushbrook and Louisa Schein, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 21.4 (2003): 383-387.
2002 “Feminist Problematization of Rights Language and Universal Conceptualizations of Human Rights,” co-authored with Isabelle Barker, Concilium: International Journal for Theology 2002/5: 64-76. (published simultaneously in Italian, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish).
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---REPRINTED in Barbara Balliet, ed., Women, Culture and Society, 4th edition, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2004: 608-616.
“A Transnational Feminist Critique of Queer Tourism,” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. 34.5 (November 2002): 935-946.
“Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots” co-authored with Amit Rai, Social Text 72 20.3 (Fall 2002): 117-148.
---EXCERPTED in John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats, eds., Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti- Asian Fear, New York: Verso, 2014.
“Introduction: Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 8.1/2 (Winter 2002): 1-6.
“Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 8.1/2 (Winter 2002): 103-139.
--- TRANSLATED INTO CROATIAN: "Krugovi homoseksualne pokretljivosti-turizam, putovanja i globalizacija." Treca, 3.1/2 (2001): 357-374.
2001 “Global Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad,” SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 26.4 (Summer 2001): 1039-1066.
1994 “Writing My Way 'Home': Traveling South Asian Bodies and Diasporic Journeys,” Socialist Review 94.4 (1994): 75-108.
“Resituating Discourses of ‘Whiteness’ and ‘Asianness’ in Northern England: Second Generation Sikh Women and Constructions of Identity,” Socialist Review 94.1/2 (1994): 21-54.
---REPRINTED in Mary Maynard and June Purvis, eds., New Frontiers in Women's Studies: Knowledge, Identity, and Nationalism, London: Taylor and Francis, 1996: 127-150.
Book Chapters:
2014 “Citation and Censure: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Palestine/Israel,” in The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, eds. Sunaina Maira and Piya Chatterjee, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
2011 “Ich ware lieber eine Cyborg als eine Gottin”: Intersktionalitat, Assemblage, und Affektpolitik,” in Isabel Lorey, Roberto Nigro, and Gerald Raunig, eds., Inventionen, Zurich: diaphanes, 2011: 253-270.
---TRANSLATED INTO PORTUGUESE: in ”Prefiro Ser Um Ciborgue A Ser Uma Deusa”: Interseccionalidade, Agenciamento E Politica Afetiva.” Meritum 8.2 (2014): 343-370.
2004 “Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad,” in Lise Nelson and Joni Seager, eds., A Companion to Feminist Geography, London: Blackwell, 2004.
2001 “Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets,” in Matt Wray et. al., eds., The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness,” Durham: Duke University Press, 2001:167-183.
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1998 “Transnational Sexualities: South Asian Trans/Nationalisms and Queer Diasporas,” in David Eng and Alice Hom, eds., Q & A: Queer in Asian America, Philadelphia: Temple U.P., 1998: 405-422.
---TRANSLATED INTO GERMAN: in Die Politik sexueller Räume Eds. Matthias Haase, Marc Siegel, and Michaela Wünsch, Berlin: b_books Verlag, 2005.
1996 “Nicaraguan Women, Resistance, and the Politics of Aid,” in Haleh Afshar, ed., Women and Politics in the Third World, London: Routledge, 1996: 73-92.
Other Publications:
2017 “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” The New Inquiry, September 15, 2017. https://thenewinquiry.com/hands-up- dont-shoot/
2016 “Speaking of Palestine: Solidarity and its Censors,” Jadaliyya, March 16, 2016. http://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/33095/Speaking-of-Palestine-Solidarity-and-Its-Censors
2015 “Theorizing Queer Inhumanisms,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol 21, Nos. 2-3, June 2015: 218-221.
“Introduction,” Civility, Academic Freedom, and the Project of Decolonization, Qui Parle, Vol 24, No 1, Fall/Winter 2015: 63-68.
2014 “Disability,” Keywords, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Vol1, Nos. 1-2, May 2014: 77-81.
“Proliferating Cripstemologies: A Roundtable,” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol 8, issue 2, 2014: 149-169.
2013 “Substantive Erasures: Essays on Academic Boycott and the American Studies Association,” Jadaliyya, December 23, 2014, http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15697/substantive-erasures_essays-on-academic-boycott-an
“X-Apartments Beirut: Moving Through the Colonial Architecture of Culture Tourism,” co-authored with Elena Glasberg, Warscapes, October, http://www.warscapes.com/art/x-apartments-beirut-moving- through-colonial-architecture-culture-tourism
2012 “Pinkwatching and Pinkwashing: Interpenetration and its Discontents,” co-authored with Maya Mikdashi, Jadaliyya, August 9, 2012. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/6774/pinkwatching-and- pinkwashing_interpenetration-and
“The Golden Handcuffs of Gay Rights: How Pinkwashing Distorts both LGBTIQ and Anti- Occupation Organizing,” The Feminist Wire, January 30, 2012. http://thefeministwire.com/2012/01/the- golden-handcuffs-of-gay-rights-how-pinkwashing-distorts-both-lgbtiq-and-anti-occupation- activism/?fb_ref=.TydfBhQ5EnM.like&fb_source=profile_multiline
---REPUBLISHED in Jadaliyya, February 7, 2012. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4273/the- golden-handcuffs-of-gay-rights_how-pinkwashing
“Lines of Control,” co-authored with Elena Glasberg, ART India, 16.3 (2012): 84-85.
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2011 “Psychedelic Blues,” co-authored with Elena Glasberg, ART India, 16.2 (2011): 92-93.
“’The Center Cannot Hold’: The Flourishing of Queer Anti-Occupation Activism,” The Huffington Post, October 3, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jasbir-k-puar/the-center-cannot-hold- th_b_991572.html
“Back to the Future,” co-authored with Elena Glasberg, ART India, Vol 16, Issue 1: 84-85.
2010 “The Spell of the White Cube,” co-authored with Elena Glasberg, ART India, Vol 15, Issue 3: 80-81.
“In the Wake of It Gets Better,” The Guardian, November 16, 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/16/wake-it-gets-better-campaign
---REPRINTED in Critical Encounters with Texts: Finding A Place to Stand, Pearson USA, 2013.
---TRANSLATED INTO DUTCH: “I kølvandet på It Gets Better,” 22 February 2011, Modkraft dk, http://modkraft.dk/sektion/queerkraft/article/i-kolvandet-pa-it-gets-better
“Bodies As Broken Grids’” co-authored with Elena Glasberg, ART India, Vol XV, Issue II September 2010: 20.
“The Ugly Truth About Why the Kids ARE All Right,” co-authored with Karen Tongson, 08/02/10. http://www.ohindustry.com/2010/08/ugly-truth-about-why-kids-are-all-right.html
---REPUBLISHED in Velvetpark, January 20, 2012. http://velvetparkmedia.com/blogs/ugly-truth- about-why-kids-are-all-right
“Israel’s Gay Propaganda War,” The Guardian, 07/01/10. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/01/israels-gay-propaganda-war
---TRANSLATED INTO POLISH: “Gejowska wojna propaganda Izraela” 07/14/10, http://lewica.pl/?id=22020
“Celebrating Refusal: The Complexities of Saying No,” 06/23/10. http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/celebrating-refusal-the-complexities-of-saying-no/
“To be gay and racist is no anomaly,” The Guardian, 06/02/10. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/02/gay-lesbian-islamophobia
2007 “Special Guest Stars: Jasbir Puar and Jenn Doyle on General Hospital,” Oh! Industry, November. http://www.ohindustry.com/2007/12/special-guest-stars-jasbir-puar.html
2002 “Closet Space: Geographies of Metaphor From the Body to the Globe,” Book Review, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, June 2002, 92(2): 347-349.
2001 “Towelheads, Diapers, and Faggots: Reviving the Turban,” CLAGS News, Fall 2001, 11(3): 4.
“The Cyberworlds of Trinidad – A Review of Daniel Miller’s and Don Slater’s The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach,” BlackPlanet.com, March 2001.
2000 “The Shattered Day – A Review,” India Currents, March 2000, 92-93.
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Radio and Print Interviews:
2018 ‘Thinking Life, Death, and Solidarity through Colonized Palestine: An Interview with Jasbir K. Puar” with Kathryn Medien, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2018
2014 “Regimes of Surveillance,” interview with Cosmologics: A Magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture http://cosmologicsmagazine.com/jasbir-puar-regimes-of-surveillance/
2013 “Homonationalism and Pinkwashing,” KPFA with Professor Paola Bachetta airdate June 30. http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/92990
“Interview mit der Queer-Theoretikerin Jasbir K. Puar zu Fragen des Posthumanismus,” Springerin 2013, by Tim Stüttgen. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2013-04-09-stuttgen-de.html
—TRANSLATED INTO SWEDISH: “Homonationalism och posthumanism: Introduktion till Jasbir K Puar.” Ord & Bild 1/2 (2013): 48-56.
2012 “Academic and Activist Assemblages: An Interview with Jasbir Puar,” by Naomi Greyser, American Quarterly, Vol 64 (4), December 2012: 841-843.
2011 “Liberalisme en onderdrukking van de ander,” http://www.grenzeloos.org/2011/12/22/liberalisme-en- onderdrukking-van-de-ander/
Modkraft: http://www.modkraft.dk/sektion/queerkraft/article/fanget-i-en-liberal-fantasi-om
Information.dk: http://www.information.dk/270701
Community Morning Radio Montreal: http://ckutmorningafter.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/
2010 Der Freitag: http://www.freitag.de/kultur/1051-die-ganze-geschichte
Leben Nach Migration: http://migrationsrat.de/dokumente/pressemitteilungen/MRBB-NL-2010-special- Leben%20nach%20Migration.pdf
“No Pride in Occupation” NCRA Program Exchange: http://previous.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=98708
2008 “Q and A with Jasbir Puar,” in darkmatter: in the ruins of imperial culture, May. http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2008/05/02/qa-with-jasbir-puar/
2000 “Oppressor and Oppressed – Rethinking the Binary. Jasbir Puar discusses Domestic Violence in the South Asian Queer Community,” Trikone Magazine, July 2000, 15(3): 10-11.
PRESENTATIONS
Distinguished Lectures/Visiting Lectureships:
2018 Power, Violence, and Inequality Endowed Lectureship, University of Virginia, March 2018
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2017 Butrill Endowed Fund for Ethics Lecture, Texas A&M University, February
2015 “Inhumanist Occupation: Prehensive Gendering in Palestine,” The 2015 Hull Lecture on Women and Justice, University of California Santa Barbara, October
2014 “The Right to Maim: The Biopolitics of Disablement in Gaza,” Lionel Cantú Memorial Lecture, University of California Santa Cruz, November.
“Conviviality: New Methods for No Future,” Leeds University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies’ Annual Lecture, May.
“Debility/Capacity: Debt, Disability and Disaster Capitalism,” Birbeck University, Race Forum and MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Annual Lecture, May.
“Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Israel/Palestine,” Henry Jackson Endowed Lectureship in International Relations, Whitman College, March.
2013 Peg Zeglin Brand Distinguished Lecturer, Indiana University, September.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University of Cairo, February.
“"Ecologies of Sensation, Sensational Ecologies: Sex and Disability in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,” Whidden Distinguished Guest Lecturer, MacMaster University, January.
2012 “Homonationalism Gone Viral: The Affective Politics of Discipline and Control,” Institute of Women’s Studies’ Shirley Greenberg Lecture, University of Ottawa, March.
2011 “The Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Sensation, Switchpoints,” 3rd Annual Queer Studies Lecture, University of California State Northridge, April.
“The Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Sensation, Switchpoints,” 20th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium Speaker, Kansas State University, April.
2010 “‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” Center for Race and Gender Distinguished Guest Lecture, UC Berkeley, October.
2009 “Unbearable Exuberance: Feminist, Queer, and Left Responses to Gaza” Noted Scholar Public Lecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November.
“A Queer Turn to Life?” Annual Distinguished Lecture, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, November.
Keynotes:
2018 Slow Life and Palestine: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts, Breaking Through: Textures and Aesthetics of Rupture, CUNY Graduate Center, March 2018.
2017 “The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability,” Troubling Seasons of Hate Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, December.
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“The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability,” Defazendo Genero Conference, Campina Grande, Brazil, October.
“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot1” Conflicted Bodies: Feminist and Queer Responses to Militarism and Violence, Goldsmiths, London, September.
“Homonationalism in Trump Times,” European Geographies of Sexuality Conference, Barcelona, September.
“Homonationalism in Trump Times,” Queer Philosophy Conference, New School, April.
“The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability,” Transnational Bodies Conference, University of Miami, February.
2016 “Debility/Capacity: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism,” Geographies of Interruption, University of Rochester, April
“Is the Post in Post Secularism the same Post in Post-Queer?” Feminist Post-Secularisms Conference, Lehigh University, March.
2015 “Academic Freedom, Public Intellectuals, and the Neoliberal Academy,” Feminist Pedagogy Conference: Transformations, CUNY Graduate Center, April.
“The Right to Maim: The Biopolitics of Disablement in Gaza,” Middle East and North African Graduate Student Association Conference, University of Arizona, March.
“The Right to Maim: The Biopolitics of Disablement in Gaza,” Graduate English Student Conference, University of Virginia, April.
“Conviviality: New Methods for No Future,” Affect, Embodiment, Politics, Autonomia Universidad de Barcelona, February
2014 “The Right to Maim: The Biopolitics of Disablement in Gaza,” Space, Race, Bodies, University of Otago, New Zealand
“Debility/Capacity: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism,” Citizen and Migration Symposium, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland, October.
“Inhumanist Occupation: Palestine, Sex, and Affect,” Life Matters; Sex, Affect, Control, Linkoping University, Sweden, May.
“Conviviality: New Methods for No Future,” Transnational Affect Conference, Queen Mary University London, May.
“Debility/Capacity: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism,” Amsterdam Cultural Studies Association, Workshop on Brains, Maps, and Rhythms, The Netherlands, April.
“Conviviality: New Methods for No Future,” Affect and Inquiry Conference, University of Iowa, March.
“Conviviality: New Methods for No Future,” Thinking/Feeling Conference, University of Toronto, March
2013 SUNY Stony Brook Cultural Analysis and Theory Graduate Student Containers Conference, October.
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“Transnormative Citizenship: Modulating Between Disability and Exceptionalism,” Gendered Citizenship, University of Bergen, Norway, October.
“Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled,” Somatechnics Conference, Linkoping University, Sweden, June.
“Homonationalism As Assemblage,” Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY, April.
“Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled,” Global Human Rights, Sexualities, Vulnerabilities, Ohio State University, April.
“Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled,” Debilitating Queerness, D.C. Queer Studies Symposium, April.
2012 “Ecologies of Sensation, Sensational Ecologies: Sex and Disability in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,” Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Adelaide, December.
“Ecologies of Sensation, Sensational Ecologies: Sex and Disability in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,” Gender Violence and Agency in the Age of Globalization, University of Vienna, December.
Homonationalism Gone Viral: The Affective Politics of Discipline and Control, SEWSA Conference George Mason University, March.
2011 “Homonationalism Gone Viral,” Human Rights Beyond the Law, Jindal Global Law School, New Delhi, India, September
“The Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Sensation, Switchpoints,” Racialization, Neoliberalism, and Queer Public Spheres, UC San Diego, April.
2010 “Queer Suicide?” Affective Tendencies Conference, Rutgers University, October.
“Homonationalism: What is it?” Queering Brooklyn Conference, Brooklyn College, April.
“‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” Contemporary Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Gender and Sexuality, Ohio State University, April.
2009 “Prognosis Time: Towards A Geopolitics of Debility, Capacity, and Affect,” New Frontiers of Race Conference, University of Chicago, May.
“Prognosis Time: Towards A Geopolitics of Debility, Capacity, and Affect,” Risky Business Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, April.
“The Political Absurd,” Feminist Responses to Gaza Conference, University of Toronto, April.
2008 “Homonationalisms,” Culture Shock Conference, McGill University, November.
“Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times,” Gender and Regulation Conference, AHRC Research Center for Law, Gender, and Sexuality, Kent University, June.
2007 “Queer Secularism,” “Engaging Islam” conference, UMass Boston, September.
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“Critical Occidentalism and Terrorist Assemblages,” "De/Constructions of Occidentalism. A Gender- Critical Intervention in the Construction of the Self through the Other" conference, Humboldt University-Berlin, June.
“Indefinite or Infinite Detention?” Queer Cultural Studies Graduate conference, UC Davis, June.
“Biopolitical Intimacy,” Histories of Homonormativity conference, UCSC, May.
“Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times,” Annual Feminist Theory conference, Central Connecticut State College, April.
“Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times,” Center for International and Security Studies Conference, York University, February.
2006 “Queer Secularisms,” Feminism and War Conference, Syracuse University, October.
“On Terror: Secularism, Queerness, Affect,” Out of Place Conference, University of Lancaster, England, March.
2004 “Queer Liberalism and the War on Terrorism” Queer Theory Symposium, Old Dominion University, October.
2003 “Transnational Sexualities and the War on Terrorism,” Transnational Feminisms Women’s Studies Symposium, Wesleyan University, October.
2002 “Why Queer Tourism Matters,” Queer and There: Travel and Commodified Desires Conference, Rice University, April.
2001 “Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization,” Centre for Women’s Studies (Zagreb), Inter-University Centre (IUC) Dubrovnik, Croatia, May.
“Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization” Globalization and its Demons Conference, New York University, April.
1999 “Queer Ethnic Studies,” Performing Unnatural Acts: Critically Queering Racial Cultural Studies Conference, UC Berkeley, November.
Plenary Speaker and Invited Lectures:
2018 Slow Life and Palestine: Settler Colonialism and Palestine, Princeton University, March.
Plenary Speaker, Queer Disruptions Conference, Columbia University, March.
2017 “Homonationalism in Trump Times,” Occidental College, April.
“The Right to Maim,” Stanford University, April.
Plenary Speaker, Haptic Bodies Conference, Barnard College, March.
“The Right to Maim,” Barnard College, February.
2016 Plenary Speaker, Feminist Ecologies, Dartmouth, April.
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2015 Plenary Speaker, National Women’s Studies Association, Milwaukee, November.
Plenary Speaker, Affect: Worldings, Tensions, Futures, Millersville University, October.
Plenary Speaker, Hacking Feminism, New School, May.
“Debility/Capacity: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism,” University of Southern California, October.
“Debility/Capacity: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism,” SUNY Stony Brook, September
“The Right to Maim: The Biopolitics of Disablement in Gaza,” Wesleyan University, April
“Debility/Capacity: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism,” Lehigh University, April
“The Right to Maim: The Biopolitics of Disablement in Gaza,” Colorado College, February
“Inhumanist Occupation: Prehensive Gendering in Palestine,” University of Colorado, February
“The Right to Maim: The Biopolitics of Disablement in Gaza,” Yale University, February
2014 “The Right to Maim: The Biopolitics of Disablement in Gaza,” University of California at Berkeley, Nov
“On Homonationalism,” Sarah Lawrence, October.
Plenary, Biopolitical Afterlives, California State University Los Angeles, October.
“Debility/Capacity: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism,” Columbia University, October.
“Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Israel/Palestine,” University of Costa Rica, June.
“Feminismos descoloniales: deconstruyendo los saberes,” Plenary, Decolonizing Feminisms Conference, Costa Rica, June.
“Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled,” University of Manchester, May.
“Debilities: Sensing Bodies and Worlds,” Goldsmiths University, May.
“Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Israel/Palestine,“ SOAS, May.
“Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled,” Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, May.
“Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Israel/Palestine,” Syracuse University, April.
“Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Israel/Palestine,” Institute of Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, April.
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“Conviviality: New Methods For No Future,” University of Michigan, April.
“Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Israel/Palestine,” Wellesley College, April.
2013 “Conviviality: New Methods For No Future,” University of Göttingen, December.
“Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled,” Hobart and William Smith College, November.
“Inhumanist Occupation,” Queer Methods Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October.
Plenary Speaker, Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, University of Illinois-Chicago, Sept 19-21.
“Ecologies of Sensation, Sensational Ecologies: Sex and Disability in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,” Department of Women’s Studies, Rice University, January.
2012 “Ecologies of Sensation, Sensational Ecologies: Sex and Disability in the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,” Metripza Queer Film Festival, Prague, November.
“Homonationalism Gone Viral: The Affective Politics of Sensation,” Portland State University, May.
“Homonationalism Gone Viral: The Affective Politics of Sensation,” Dartmouth College, April.
“Homonationalism Gone Viral: The Affective Politics of Sensation,” Vassar College, April.
“Homonationalism Gone Viral: The Affective Politics of Sensation,” Connecticut College, April.
Respondent to Keynote by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Extraordinary Bodies, Extraordinary Minds Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, March.
“The Golden Handcuffs of LGBT Rights,” Sexual Violence and Colonialism Panel, Columbia University, February.
“Homonationalism Gone Viral: The Affective Politics of Sensation,” University of Chicago, February.
2011 American Academy of Religion, Panel on Terrorist Assemblages, November.
“Curriculum Integration and the Multiple Futures of Queer Theory,” Middlebury College, October.
“The Cost of Getting Better: Ecologies of Sex, Race, and Disability,” Bowdoin College, September.
“The Cost of Getting Better: Ecologies of Sex, Race, and Disability,” Colby College, September.
“Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Israel,” Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Sept.
“The Cost of Getting Better: Ecologies of Sex, Race, and Disability,” Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, June.
“Homonationalism and Secularism,” Sexual Democracies Conference, Rome, May.
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“Israeli Pinkwashing, Left Ambivalence, and Queer Critique,” Soderturn University, Stockholm, May.
“The Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Sensation, Switchpoints,” University of Bergen, Norway, May
“The Cost of Getting Better: Suicide, Sensation, Switchpoints,” Occidental College, April.
“Israeli Pinkwashing, Left Ambivalence, and Queer Critique,” University of Colorado Boulder, April.
Plenary Speaker, PhiloSOPHIA Annual Feminist Philosophy Conference, Nashville, May.
“Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Israel,” University of Southern California, Students for Justice in Palestine, February.
“Israeli Pinkwashing, Left Ambivalence, and Queer Critique, ” UCLA, February.
“States of Exception and Exceptional States: Homonationalism and Its Discontents,” Brown University, February.
Opening Plenary, Sexual Nationalisms and Belonging in the New Europe Conference, Amsterdam, January.
2010 “Queer Assemblages,” University of Zurich, Switzerland, December.
“Israeli Pinkwashing,” Gender and Fundamentalism Conference, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, December.
“ ‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” University of Giessen, Germany, November.
“Lifelogging: Digital Archives of Affect, Memory, and Intimacy,” Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, November.
“On Method,” with Amit Rai, CUNY Graduate Center, May.
Plenary Speaker, Politically Queer: Social In[queer]y and the University, The New School for Social Research, May.
“Queer and Feminist Islamophobia,” UC Berkeley, April.
“‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” Butler University, April.
“‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” Northwestern University, April.
“‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” CUNY Graduate Center, April.
“Lifelogging: Digital Archives of Affect, Memory, and Intimacy,” Department of Anthropology, The New School of Social Research, March.
Plenary Speaker, “Intersectionality and its Discontents,” Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 35th Anniversary,
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UMass-Amherst, February
“Debility, Capacity, and Deleuze,” Institute of Disabilities, Temple University, February.
2009 “A Queer Turn to Life?” Belonging Conference, Hebbel Theater, Berlin, November.
Faculty and student seminar on Terrorist Assemblages, George Washington University, November.
“ ‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, October.
Panel on Terrorist Assemblages, “The Sexualized Other” Symposium, Oberlin College, October.
Discussion on Terrorist Assemblages, LGBTQ Student Life, New York University, October.
“Culture and Politics Plenary,” Encuentro Hemispheric Conference, Bogota, Colombia, August.
“Prognosis Time: Towards A Geopolitics of Debility, Capacity, and Affect,” Department of Women’s Studies, York University, April.
Panelist, Living with Neoliberalism, Rethinking Sex Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March.
“Prognosis Time: Towards A Geopolitics of Debility, Capacity, and Affect,” Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, February.
“Prognosis Time: Towards A Geopolitics of Debility, Capacity, and Affect,” Humanities Institute, SUNY Buffalo, January.
2008 Faculty Seminar on Terrorist Assemblages, Trent University, November.
“Lifelogging Technologies: Archives of Memory and Affect,” Everyday Militarization Workshop, UC Berkeley October.
“Prognosis Time: Towards A Geopolitics of Debility, Capacity, and Affect,” Queer of Color Critique Lecture Series, UCLA, October.
“Prognosis Time: Towards A Geopolitics of Debility, Capacity, and Affect,” Culture and Theory Speaker Series, UC Irvine, October.
“Prognosis Time: Towards A Geopolitics of Debility, Capacity, and Affect,” Department of Women’s Studies, Emory University, September.
Booking Reading, Terrorist Assemblages, b_books, Kreuzberg, Berlin, June.
Faculty Seminar on Terrorist Assemblages, University of Westminster, London, June.
Plenary Speaker, Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, NYU, May.
Faculty Seminar on Terrorist Assemblages, Department of Performance Studies, NYU
2007 Faculty Seminar on Terrorist Assemblages, Duke University, November “Queer Secularisms,” Religion, Politics and Sex conference, CUNY Graduate Center, November.
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“Biopolitical Intimacy,” Georgia State University, September.
“Terrorist Assemblages,” Pace University, September.
“Biopolitical Intimacy,” Hunter College, March.
“Terrorist Assemblages: Homonoationalism in Queer Times,” Oberlin College, March.
“’The Turban is Not a Hat’: Queer Diaspora and Practices of Profiling,” CUNY Graduate Center, February.
2006 “Spatial Politics: Indefinite or Infinite Detention?” Center for Mobilities Research, University of Lancaster, England, March.
“Transnational Feminism and Terrorism,” Cultural Theory Institute, University of Manchester, March.
“The Race of Racial Profiling,” Beyond Biopolitics Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, March.
“Biopolitical Intimacy: Lawrence, Sodomy, and Infinite Detention,” Departments of Women’s Studies and Geography, Syracuse University, March.
2005 “Contagious Turbans,” Translating Culture: Sikh and Punjab Studies in Global Perspective Conference, UC Berkeley, November.
“Queer Biopolitics and the Ascendancy of Whiteness,” Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Cornell University, October.
Plenary Speaker, “The Biopolitics of Intimate Control: Lawrence, Sodomy, and Abu Ghraib,” Feminist Dialogues on Social Justice, University of Washington, October.
“Queer Times, Queer Assemblages,” Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, England, May.
“Abu Ghraib: Arguing Against Exceptionalism,” Department of Gender Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, May.
“Lawrence v. Texas and the Production of Sodomy at Abu Ghraib,” Women’s Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, March.
“Towards A Sikh Queer Diaspora?” Gender and Sexuality in Sikh Studies workshop, University of California at Irvine, March.
2004 “Bodies and Landscapes of Control in the Neoliberal City,” CLAGS, CUNY Graduate Center, November.
“Remaking a Model Minority,” co-presented with Amit Rai, Center for Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center, February.
2003 "Race, Nation, and The Queer War on Terrorism" A/P/A Studies, New York University, October.
“Homonormativity, Nationalism, and Queer Responses to 9-11,” Five College Women’s Studies
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Research Center Sexuality and Culture Lecture Series, Mt. Holyoke College, April.
2002 “Sex, Race, and Globalization” Department of Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, April.
“Crisis of Mobility: Migration and Queer Tourism Post 9-11,” Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University, February.
“Racial Formations: Gender, Sexuality, and Diasporic Citizenship,” co-presented with Dr. Amit Rai, Department of Women’s Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, February.
“Crisis of Mobility: Migration and Queer Tourism Post 9-11,” University of California Riverside, February.
2001 “Towelheads, Diapers, Faggots: Reviving the Turban,” teach-in on Transnational Perspectives on Terror, Connecticut College, December
2000 “Organizing in Diasporic/Transnational Communities: South Asians and Same-Sex Domestic Violence,” Department of Performance Studies, New York University, April.
“(Same) Sex Tourism: Consumption, Nationalism, and Human Rights,” Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, February.
1999 “(Same) Sex Tourism: Consumption, Nationalism, and Queer Human Rights,” The Transnational Politics of Gender and Consumption Conference, UC Berkeley, October.
“Queer/ed Tourism,” Subjects of Tourism: Globalization, Gender, and Circuits of Desire Conference, UC Berkeley, February.
1998 “The Drag of Postcoloniality: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad,” Department of Women’s Studies, San Francisco State, December.
1997 “Queer Diasporas,” Diaspora Studies Colloquium, UC Berkeley, December.
“Methodological Dilemmas of Theorizing Transnational Sexualities,” Queer Cluster, University of California, Davis, June.
“Transnational Sexualities, Feminist Praxis, and Queer Diasporas,” Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, May.
“Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets,” The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness Conference, UC Berkeley, April.
1995 “Arranging Identities,” Socialist Review panel, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco.
1994 “Sikh Re-Presentation and Race,” Sikh Identity Conference, Sikh Students Association, UC Berkeley, November.
1993 “It's Great to Have Someone to Talk to - Or is it?: Feminist Processes of Research,” Department of Geography, University of London, England, November.
“Challenging the White Gaze: Deconstructing Relational Discourses,” in conversation with Chandra Mohanty, Development of a Multicultural Curriculum in Women's Studies, University of Utrecht, The
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Netherlands, June.
Conference Papers:
2017 “The Right to Maim,” American Studies Association, Chicago, November.
2010 “Globalizing Disability,” Society for Disability Studies, Philadelphia, June.
2008 “Author Meets Interlocutors: Panel on Jasbir Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages,” Association of American Geographers, Boston.
2007 “Biopolitical Intimacy,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April.
2006 “Indefinite or Infinite Detention?” American Studies Association, Oakland, October.
2005 “U.S. Imperialism and Lawrence v. Texas,” Left Forum Conference, CUNY, New York, April.
“Torture and Masculinity” Educators to Stop War Conference, Hunter College, New York City, March.
2004 “Queer Globalizations,” Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March.
2003 “Homonormativity, Nationalism, and Queer Responses to the War on Terrorism,” American Studies Association, Hartford, October.
2002 “A Crisis of Mobility? Globalization and Queer Tourism Post 9-11,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meetings, Las Vegas, June.
“Circuits of Mobility: A Transnational Feminist Critique of Queer Tourism,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March.
2001 “Circuits of Mobility: A Transnational Feminist Critique of Queer Tourism,” American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December.
“Sexual Citizenship and Consumption: Turning the Nation into a Queer Place,” The Canadian Anthropology Society, Montreal, May.
“Global Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad,” Association of American Geographers, New York City, March.
2000 “Sexual Citizenship and Consumption: Turning the Nation into a Queer Place,” American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November.
1999 “The Drag of Postcoloniality: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad,” American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, October.
1998 “Queer Ethnographies,” Queer Globalization/Local Homosexualities, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, New York, April.
1997 “Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets,” American Studies Association, Washington D.C., November.
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1996 “Transnational Sexualities: South Asian (Trans)Nation/alisms and Queer Diasporas,” Modern Languages Association, Washington D.C., December.
“Transnational Sexualities: South Asian (Trans)Nation/alisms and Queer Diasporas,” American Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November.
“Queer and Here: Closeted Subalterns in South Asian Diasporic Imagineries,” Association for Asian American Studies, Washington D.C., June.
1995 “Traveling/Translated/Transnational Bodies: Fragmented Symptoms and Subtexts of the 'Indian' Nation,” Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Washington D.C., November.
“Resisting Utopia, Rethinking Diaspora: South Asians and Bhangra Music,” Association for Asian American Studies, Oakland, CA, June.
1994 “Politics of Home, Location and Travel,” SOCI Fourth Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, May.
“Second Generation South Asian Women: The Politics of Home and Location,” Emerging Theories/Merging Practices in Gender Studies, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, April.
1993 “Development Studies and Relational Discourses of the Other,” Development Studies Association, University of Sussex, September.
Roundtable Panelist, Respondent or Panel Organizer:
2015 Panelist, Roundtable on the Intersections Between American Studies and Disability Studies, American Studies Association, Toronto, October.
2013 Panelist, The Death of Queer Theory? Modern Languages Association, Boston, January.
2012 Respondent and Organizer, Disabling Biopolitics, American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November.
2011 Panelist and Organizer, Relocating Affect, American Studies Association, Baltimore, October.
2010 Panelist, Detention Gone Global, American Studies Association, San Antonio, November.
2003 Panel Organizer with Paul Kingsbury, “Tourism and the Uses of Enjoyment” Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March.
2002 Panel respondent, "Spaces at the Intersections of 'Race' and Sexuality” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March.
Panelist, “Sexuality and Pedagogy: Challenging the (Hetero)Norms,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March.
Panelist, “Transnational Sexualities: Imperialism, Borders, and Movements,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March.
2001 Panelist, “Empowering America: What Can We Do in an Age of Fear and Uncertainty,” Rutgers
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University, October.
Panelist, “Conversations on the Current Crisis: At the Intersections of Gender and Race,” Rutgers University, October.
Panelist, “On Q: A Mini-Conference for LGBT Liaisons and Advocates,” Diverse Community Affairs & Lesbian-Gay Concerns, Rutgers University, February.
1997 Panelist, “Sexualities, Gendering Practices, and Colonial Modernities: Transnational and South Asian Contexts,” Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, October.
1996 Panel Organizer, “Transnational Sexualities: Narrations of Normativity,” American Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November.
1995 Panel Organizer, “Transnational Cultural Studies” Association for Asian American Studies, Oakland, CA, June.
TEACHING
Teaching Interests and Experience:
Globalization and Gender; Diaspora, Postcolonial, and Transnational Studies; South Asian Cultural Studies; Feminist, Queer, and Critical Race Theory; Critical Disability Studies.
Feminist Genealogies (Graduate) Diasporic Geographies (Graduate) Transnational Sexualities (Graduate) Gendered Borders and Boundaries (Graduate) Affect, Terror, Biopolitics (Graduate) Feminist Theory (Graduate) Feminist Knowledge Production (Graduate) Debility/Capacity (Graduate) Human/Animal/Machine (Graduate) The Globalization of Disability (Honors Seminar) Transnational and Postcolonial Sexualities Gender Geographies Theories of Feminism: Contemporary Engagements Dynamics of Race/Class/Sex Race, Gender, Nation South Asian Feminisms Research on Sexualities Homonationalisms Women, Politics, and Citizenship Introduction to Women’s Studies Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Queer Ethnic Studies
Ph.D. Dissertation Chair:
Andrew Mazzaschi, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 4/14) Max Hantel, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 6/15)
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Rasha Moumne, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Louise Tam, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Amanda Haziz-Ginsberg, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Zandi Sherman, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Ph.D Dissertation Committee Member:
Jennifer Worley, Department of English (filed 09/04) Elaine Replogle, Department of Sociology (filed 01/05) Laura Lui, Department of Geography (filed 09/03) Roksana Badruddoja, Department of Sociology (filed 09/06) Catherine Sameh, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 5/12) Bahia Munem, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 3/14) Sonja Thomas, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 5/11) Anahi Russo Garrido, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 9/12) Stina Soderling, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 05/15) Sara Perryman, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Rachel Zaslow, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Julian Petersen, Department of American Studies, Rutgers-Newark (filed 4/15) Benjamin Haber, Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center (filed 9/17) Lindsey Whitmore, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies R. Joshua Scannell, Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center (filed 12/17) Hudson McFann, Department of Geography Nitasha Dhillon, Department of Film, SUNY Buffalo Annabel We, Department of Comparative Literature Kathryn Medien, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Warwick
Chair, M.A. Thesis:
Bradley Wilson, Department of Geography (filed 05/03) Nora Kindley, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 09/01) Jasleen Singh, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 09/17)
M.A. Thesis or Practicum Committee Member:
Abe Weil, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 12/11) Sana Khsheiboun, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 04/05) Michael I. Mohammed, Department of Geography (filed 04/06) Rosalie Siemon, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 09/05) Elaine Zundl, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 05/11) Pat Hurley, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Chair, Undergraduate Henry Rutgers Honors Thesis:
Megha N. Vyas, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (High Honors, filed 05/12) Jesse Zatloff, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (High Honors, filed 05/09) Heta Patel, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 05/09) Jan Oostings, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 05/01) Stephanie Pell, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (filed 5/02; thesis received the New Jersey Project Award for Excellence in Feminist/Multicultural Scholarship 2002)
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SERVICE
Peer Reviewer:
Tourism Geographies Feminist Studies Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Social and Cultural Geography Columbia University Press Palgrave-Macmillan Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Duke University Press
Academic Service:
2018 Academic Senate, Rutgers University
2014- Graduate Program Director, Women’s and Gender Studies
2011- Appointments and Promotions Committee, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University. Search Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies and American Studies.
2010 Nominations Committee, American Studies Association, 2010-2012.
2008- Graduate Admissions. Personnel Committee 2008-2010
2006 Graduate Curriculum Committee. 2006-2009.
2005 South Asian Studies core faculty. Collective for Asian American Scholarship member. Faculty Advisor, South Asian Women’s Collective.
2004 Executive Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Fall 2004-2006. Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora Search Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, 2004-2005. Editorial Collective Member, Social Text, 2004-present.
2003 Ethnic Studies Task Force, Faculty of Arts and Science, Rutgers University.
2002 Theory and Methods Curriculum Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Ad-hoc Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
2001 Executive Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University Faculty Adviser, Undergraduate Women’s Studies Association, Fall 2001-2002. South Asia Studies Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Chair, Multicultural Working Group, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, Spring 2001-2002.
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2001 Ad-hoc Transition Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, 2001. Ad-hoc Hiring Priorities Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, 2001.
2000 Search Committee, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, 2000-2001.
1993 Organizing Committee, NOISE Women’s Studies Student Network, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
1992 Elected Student Representative, Board of Curriculum, University of York, England, 1992-1993.
Conferences and Research Clusters:
2013 Organizer, Sexual Sovereignty Conference, American University of Beirut, March 13-15.
2009 Conference Committee, “Affective Tendencies” Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
2001 Conference Co-Organizer, Sexuality and Space: Geographies of Globalization, co-sponsored by the Sexuality and Space AAG Specialty Group and CLAGS, New York, February 2001.
2000 Co-Organizer, Sexual Geographies Study Group, Rutgers University, Fall 2000.
1995 Organizer of Townsend Center working groups, UC Berkeley: South Asians and Transnationalism; Queer Ethnic Studies, 1995-1998.
Organizer, First Annual South Asian Diasporic Filmmakers Festival, UC Berkeley, April 1995.
Academic and Activist Community Service:
2016- Board Member, Audre Lorde Project
2009 AAAS Book Award Committee. Board Member, Audre Lorde Project; Curating Editor for ALP’s Huffington Post articles.
2006 Editorial Advisory Board Member, Women and Performance: Journal of Feminist Theory.
2005 Editorial Advisory Board Member, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Editorial Advisory Board Member, Sikh Formations. Editorial Advisory Board Member, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.
2003 Social Text Collective Member, May 2003-present.
2001 Advisory Board, NCRW Human Security Fellowship, Fall 2001-2004.
2000 Co-Facilitator, Treasurer, South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association, New York, September 2000 –2004.
1999 Board Member, Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY, Fall 1999-2005.
1995 Board Member of Narika, a helpline for abused South Asian women, November 1995-98. Director of Youth Outreach Program, 1998-99; President, 1997.
1994 Editorial Collective Member of South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, 1994-96.
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Workshop Facilitator and Organizer:
2004 “Histories of Activism” Seminar in the City series, co-facilitated with Sonia Kaytal and Rosamond King, sponsored by CLAGS and the Audre Lorde Project, February-March 2004.
2000 DesiQ, South Asian Queer Conference, San Francisco, June 2000; facilitating workshop on same-sex domestic violence in South Asian communities.
1997 Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Conference, San Francisco, June 1997; facilitator for workshops on queer community organizing, support services, and transgender issues.
1995 Pride Utsav South Asian Gay and Lesbian Conference, San Francisco, June 1995; facilitator for workshops on gender and sexuality and co-gender organizing.
1993 University of York, England, Fall 1993: facilitator for anti-racism workshops. Asian Women's Domestic Violence Conference, Leeds, England, November 1993; facilitator for workshop on second-generation women and violence.
Languages:
German, Punjabi; basic knowledge of Spanish; studying Arabic.
Organizations:
American Studies Association Modern Languages Association Association of American Geographers National Women’s Studies Association Association for Asian American Studies
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