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