Tavia Nyong'o

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Tavia Nyong'o is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, New York University, Wesleyan University

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Tavia Nyong'o

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#3704

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#5183

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#1361

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Tavia Nyong'o's Degrees

PhD Performance Studies New York University
Masters Performance Studies New York University

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According to Wikipedia, Tavia Nyong'o is a critic and scholar of art and performance. He is William Lampson professor of African American studies, American studies and theater and performance studies at Yale University where he teaches courses on black diaspora performance, cultural studies, and critical and aesthetic theory.

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Tavia Nyong'o's Published Works

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Published Works

The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009) (87)
Afro-Fabulations (2018) (86)
The unforgivable transgression of being Caster Semenya (2010) (53)
Racial Kitsch and Black Performance (2002) (38)
Queering Archives A Roundtable Discussion (2015) (34)
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion (2011) (34)
Do You Want Queer Theory (or Do You Want the Truth)? Intersections of Punk and Queer in the 1970s (2008) (33)
Queer Africa and the Fantasy of Virtual Participation (2012) (28)
Punk'd Theory (2005) (26)
Little Monsters: Race, Sovereignty, and Queer Inhumanism in Beasts of the Southern Wild (2015) (24)
Introduction (2018) (24)
Brown Punk: Kalup Linzy's Musical Anticipations (2010) (21)
IntroductionTheory in the Wild (2018) (20)
Afro-philo-sonic Fictions: Black Sound Studies after the Millennium (2014) (12)
Situating precarity between the body and the commons (2013) (12)
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2013) (10)
The Scene of Occupation (2012) (8)
Being with José An Introduction (2014) (7)
Trapped in the Closet with Eve (2011) (7)
I Feel Love: Disco and Its Discontents (2008) (7)
Have You Seen His Childhood? Song, Screen, and the Queer Culture of the Child in Michael Jackson's Music (2011) (6)
Unburdening Representation (2014) (6)
‘I've Got You Under My Skin’ Queer assemblages, lyrical nostalgia and the African diaspora (2007) (6)
Punk and Its Afterlives Introduction (2013) (5)
Back to the Garden: Queer Ecology in Samuel Delany's Heavenly Breakfast (2012) (5)
Barack Hussein Obama, or, the Name of the Father (2014) (3)
Algorithms and Performance: An Introduction (2019) (3)
Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2010 by Paul Gilroy (2012) (2)
Little Monsters (2018) (2)
A Questionnaire on Monuments (2018) (2)
“Rip It Up”: Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richard’s Sound (2014) (2)
Recall and response: black women performers & the mapping of memory (2006) (2)
So Far Down You Can’t See the Light (2020) (1)
Period Rush: Affective Transfers in Recent Queer Art and Performance (2012) (1)
Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism; Knowledge Ltd: Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative (2018) (1)
Queer Hip Hop and its Dark Precursors (2013) (1)
“Different Love?”: Introducing the Trans/Queer Issue (2013) (1)
Unfinished situations (2009) (1)
“Their Mind Is Sex, Y’know?”: Little Richard Shades the Authenticity Debate (2021) (0)
Upheavals in Black Thought: On Critical Negativity (2021) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
Unpacking the Z Survival Kit (2013) (0)
Desire (2013) (0)
I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom (2012) (0)
Fierce Pleasures: Art, History, and Culture in New York City Drag Balls (1995) (0)
Deep Time, Dark Time (2018) (0)
The aeSTheTic reSonance of Brown (2020) (0)
Race, Reenactment, and the “Natural-Born Citizen” (2014) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
One Take: Luke Willis Thompson. A new film uses a sculpture by Donald Rodney to reflect on tales of race and class (2018) (0)
The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North by Douglas A. Jones, Jr. (review) (2017) (0)
Opacity, Narration, and “The Fathomless Word” (2022) (0)
Douglas A. Jones, Jr., The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North (2017) (0)
Janell Hobson: Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (2007) (0)
Chore and Choice (2018) (0)
Images (2018) (0)
The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze (2019) (0)
Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism by Miranda Joseph, and: Knowledge Ltd: Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative by Randy Martin (review) (2018) (0)
Introduction: A Race against Time? (2018) (0)
Crushed Black (2018) (0)
In Finitude Being with José, Being with Pedro (2014) (0)
Sex and Sociability (2010) (0)
Conclusion (2018) (0)
Presence, 2019–2022: Introduction (2022) (0)
Unburdening Liveness (2022) (0)
Afterword (2020) (0)
Fabulous, Formless (2018) (0)
Nairobi in the Age of the World Target (2013) (0)
Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocello’s Butch Voice (2018) (0)
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein (review) (2015) (0)
Upheavals in Black Thought (2021) (0)
Critical Shade (2018) (0)
Editors’ Introduction (2020) (0)
Interview with Pamela Booker (2016) (0)
Brer Soul and the Mythic Being (2018) (0)
Passing as politics: Framing black political performance (2005) (0)
Interregnum (2021) (0)
Conclusion: For a Critical Poetics of Afro-Fabulation (2018) (0)
Deconstructing Little Richard (2020) (0)
So Far Down You Can’t See the Light: (2020) (0)
Habeas Ficta (2018) (0)
The Oceanic Feeling (2012) (0)

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