Judith Butler Dept of Comparative Literature critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature
Ianna Hawkins Owen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies
Paola Bacchetta Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil
Eric A. Stanley Dept of Gender and Women's Studies critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory
Grace Lavery Dept of English critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies
Roni Masel Dept of Comparative Literature Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory
Roshanak Kheshti Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis
Lawrence Cohen Dept of Anthropology Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies social and cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, critical gerontology, feminist and queer theory, Science and Technology studies
Mel Y Chen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
Jacob Gaboury Dept of Film and Media media studies, computer graphics, history of technology, Science and Technology studies, queer theory, new media, art and technology
Dora Silva Santana Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology
Xandra Ibarra Dept of Art Practice performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance, race and sexual politics, feminist and queer theory, sex work, women of color feminisms, anti-colonial feminism, LGBTQ communities, queer/trans social movements, critical prison studies
Salar Mameni Dept of Ethnic Studies art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures
Henry Washington Jr. Dept of African American Studies 19th and 20th century African American literature, Black intellectual history, black feminist, queer, and trans theories, black critical theory, aesthetics and visual culture, performance studies
Courtney Desiree Morris Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics
Juana María Rodríguez Dept of Ethnic Studies race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work
Poulomi Saha Dept of English Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults
Patrice D. Douglass Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought
Andrew Way Leong Dept of English 19th century American literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies
Nathaniel Wolfson Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies
Leti Volpp School of Law citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies
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