Ph.D., 1994 Comparative Literature, Duke University; B.A., 1989 Comparative Literature, Sarah Lawrence College
José E Muñoz
Associate Professor
Latino studies; queer theory; critical race theory; global mass cultures; performance art; film and video.
Board of Directors, The New Festival: New York's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Board of Directors, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY; Executive Committee on Popular Culture; Modern Language Association.
Penn State University Minority Fellow; Duke Endowment Fellowship.
Books
Feeling Brown: Ethnicity, Affect and Performance. Durham: Duke University Press, Forthcoming.
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Edited books
With Celeste Fraser Delgado. Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
With Jennifer Doyle and Jonathan Flatley. Pop Out: Queer Warhol. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
Chapters in books
"The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia." The Future of American Studies. Eds. Donald Pease and Robyn Weigman. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002.
"Gesture, Ephemera and Queer Feeling: Approaching Kevin Aviance." Choreographing Desire. Ed. Jane Desmond. Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.
"The Autoethnographic Performance: Reading Richard Fung's Queer Hybridity." Performing Hybridity. Eds. Jennifer Natalya Fink and May Joseph. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
"Latino Theatre and Queer Theory." Queer Theatre. Ed. Alisa Solomon. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
"Luis Alfar's Memory Theatre." Corpus Delecti. Ed. Coco Fusco. New York and London: Routledge, 1999.
"Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self." Living Color: Race and Television. Ed. Sasha Torres. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.
"Rough Boy Trade: Queer Desire/Straight Identity in the Photography of Larry Clark." The Passionate Camera. Ed. Deborah Bright. New York: Routledge, 1998.
"Photographies of Mourning: Ambivalence and Melancholia in Mapplethorpe (Edited by Van Der Zee) and Looking for Langston." Race and the Subject(s) of Masculinity. Eds. Harry Uebel and Michael Stecopoulos. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997.
"Famous and Dandy Like B. 'n' Andy: Race, Pop, and Basquiat." Pop Out: Queer Warhol. Eds. Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley and José Esteban Muñoz. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996.
"Flaming Latinas: Ela Troyano's Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is Your Waffen." The Ethnic Eye: Latino Media. Eds. Ana M. L—pez and Chon A. Noriega. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
"Ghosts of Public Sex: Utopian Longings, Queer Memories." Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism. Ed. Dangerous Bedfellows. Boston: South End Press, 1996.
Articles
"Hailing the Queen: The Queen of America Goes to Washington City." American Quarterly (Forthcoming).
"Citizens and Superheroes." American Quarterly (2002).
"Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's the Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs)." Theatre Journal (2000).
"The Onus of Seeing Cuba: Nilo Cruz's Cubania." The South Atlantic Quarterly (2000).
"Dead White: Notes on the Whiteness of the New Queer Cinema." GLQ (1998).
"The White to Be Angry: Vaginal Davis's Terrorist Drag." Social Text 52-3 (1997).
"Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts." Queer Acts (A Special Issue of Women and Performance) (1996).
"Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America/El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement/Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics, and Culture From Cortes to the 1980s." TDR (1996).
"The Autoethnographic Performance: Reading Richard Fung's Queer Hybridity." Screen (1995).
"Choteo/Camp Style Politics: Carmelita Tropicana's Performance of Self Enactment." Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory (1995).
"No es Facil: Notes on the Negotiation of Cubanidad and Exilic Memory in Carmelita Tropicana's Milk of Amnesia." TDR (1995).
"Heteroglossia of Queer Voices." LGSN (1992).
Related publications
Edited with Brian Phillip and Anne McClintock. "Social Text: Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender (1997).
Editor. "Queer Acts (Special Issue of Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory) (1996).
"Fiction." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the U.S. Eds. Cathy N. Davidson et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.