Research Bio
Roshanak Kheshti is a cultural theorist whose work broadly encompasses performance through race, gender, sexuality and the senses. Her books include We See with the Skin: On Zora Neale Hurston’s methodology (Duke, 2026), Switched-on Bach (33 1/3, 2019) and Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (NYU, 2015). She has additionally published widely on Iranian diaspora cultural production in sound and cinema.
Research Expertise and Interest
race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis
Teaching
Methodologies in Performance Studies [THEATER 202 - 001]
Performance Theory [THEATER 119 - 001]
Performance and Culture [THEATER 121 - 001]
Black Theatre Workshop [AFRICAM C143C - 001]
Research Colloquium [THEATER 200B - 001]
Black Theatre Workshop [THEATER C183C - 001]