Author and NYU Professor José Esteban Muñoz will give a lecture, "Brown Feelings, Queer Lives," on Wednesday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 109 at Hamilton College. It is sponsored by The Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture at Hamilton, and is free and open to the public.
Muñoz is associate professor of performance studies at NYU where he teaches Latin/o American performance, gender studies, the history of performance art and visual culture, and critical theory. He earned his Ph.D. from the graduate program in literature at Duke University. Muñoz is the author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics and the editor of Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America and Pop Out: Queer Warhol, as well as special issues of the journal Social Text and Women and Performance.
He is currently finishing a book titled Feeling Brown: Ethnicity, Affect and Performance. Muñoz has lectured internationally and curated performance and film shows throughout the United States.
Muñoz's visit is co-sponsored by the departments of comparative literature, Spanish, and theatre and dance. For more information, call the Kirkland Project at 315-859-4288.
