Lecture and Presentation by Tavia Nyong'o, Professor of American Studies and Theatre Studies at Yale University

Tavia Nyong'o is Professor of American Studies and Theatre Studies at Yale University. He writes on art, music, politics, culture, and theory. His first book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University Press of Minnesota, 2009), won the Errol Hill Award for best book in African American theatre and performance studies. He is completing a study of fabulation in black aesthetics and embarking on another on queer wildness. Nyong’o has published in venues such as Radical History Review, Criticism, GLQ, TDR, Women & Performance, WSQ, The Nation, Triple Canopy, The New Inquiry, and n+1. He is co-editor of the journal Social Text and the Sexual Cultures book series at New York University Press. He regularly blogs at Bully Bloggers.

Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, Prof. Dr. Heike Raphael-Hernandez