Tavia Nyong’o

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Title
Professor
Department
American Studies
Institution
Yale University

Education

  • Ph.D.

Research Interests

Little Richard   Roundtable Discussion   Staging Historical Trauma  

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List of Publications (98)
In 2022
98

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness. FE Maus, S Whiteley, T Nyong'o, Z Sherinian Oxford University Press, 2022.

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97

Free as a Bird? Thinking with the Grain of Meshell Ndegeocellos Butch Voice. T NyoNgo The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness, 229, 2022.

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In 2021
96

" Their Mind Is Sex, Y'know?": Little Richard Shades the Authenticity Debate. T Nyong'o American Quarterly 73 (1), 145-149, 2021.

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95

Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance. T Nyong'o GLQ-A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 27 (3), 473-483, 2021.

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94

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. T Nyong'o GLQ-A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 27 (3), 473-483, 2021.

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93

Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation. T Nyong'o GLQ-A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 27 (3), 473-483, 2021.

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92

Upheavals in Black Thought: On Critical Negativity. T Nyong'o GLQ 27 (3), 473-483, 2021.

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In 2020
91

Afterword: Queer Reconstellations. EB Lim, T Nyongo Social Text 38 (4), 149-156, 2020.

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90

Deconstructing Little Richard: A Roundtable Discussion. J King, T Nyongo, N Hendryx, I Isiah, AL Jones, U McMillan, M Moore, ... Journal of Popular Music Studies 32 (4), 3-10, 2020.

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In 2019
89

14 Does Staging Historical Trauma Re-Enact It?. T NYONG'O Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

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88

The Crypt of Blackness: or Assotto Saint with Gilles Deleuze. T NYONGO We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions 8, 175, 2019.

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87

Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. A Pellegrini, T Nyong'o, J Chambers-Letson, JE Muoz New York University Press, 2019.

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86

Algorithms and performance: An introduction. E Morrison, T Nyong'o, J Roach TDR/The Drama Review 63 (4), 8-13, 2019.

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In 2018
85

Afro-Fabulations. T Nyong'o Afro-Fabulations, 2018.

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84

A Questionnaire on Monuments. L Allais, NW Anderson, A Weiner, T Bruguera, T Burr, ME Carroll, ... October, 3-177, 2018.

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83

Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism; Knowledge Ltd: Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative. T Nyongo TDR/The Drama Review 62 (2), 159-162, 2018.

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82

Introduction: theory in the wild. J Halberstam, T Nyongo South Atlantic Quarterly 117 (3), 453-464, 2018.

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81

Good Morning 1877, Sit Down: On Civility, Reconstruction, and Our Revanchist Moment. KW Tompkins, T Nyong'o Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry 1 (3), 80, 2018.

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80

7. Habeas Ficta. T Nyongo Afro-Fabulations, 166-184, 2018.

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79

2. Crushed Black. T Nyongo Afro-Fabulations, 46-75, 2018.

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78

3. Brer Soul and the Mythic Being. T Nyongo Afro-Fabulations, 76-98, 2018.

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77

4. Deep Time, Dark Time. T Nyongo Afro-Fabulations, 99-128, 2018.

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76

8 Chore and Choice. T Nyongo Afro-Fabulations, 185-198, 2018.

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75

Eleven theses on civility. T Nyongo, KW Tompkins Social Text Online 11, 2018.

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74

1. Critical Shade. T Nyongo, T Nyong'o Afro-Fabulations, 27-45, 2018.

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73

5. Little Monsters. T Nyongo, T Nyong'o Afro-Fabulations, 129-150, 2018.

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72

6. Fabulous, Formless. T Nyongo, T Nyong'o Afro-Fabulations, 151-165, 2018.

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In 2017
71

Forward to 2017 Edition. T Nyongo Terrorist Assemblages, 2017.

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70

The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North by Douglas A. Jones, Jr. T Nyong'o Modern Drama 60 (1), 121-123, 2017.

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69

Douglas A. Jones, Jr., The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North. T Nyongo Modern Drama 60 (1), 121-123, 2017.

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68

I Feel Love: Disco and Its Discontents. T Nyong'o Electronica, Dance and Club Music, 165-176, 2017.

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67

The Scene of Occupation. T Nyongo, SJ Lauro Zombie Theory: A Reader, 316-31, 2017.

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In 2016
66

14. Interview with Pamela Booker. T Nyongo Blacktino Queer Performance, 454-458, 2016.

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In 2015
65

Little Monsters: Race, Sovereignty, and Queer Inhumanism in Beasts of the Southern Wild. T Nyong'o GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 21 (2-3), 249-272, 2015.

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64

Queering archives: A roundtable discussion. A Arondekar, A Cvetkovich, CB Hanhardt, R Kunzel, T Nyong'o, ... Radical History Review 2015 (122), 211-231, 2015.

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63

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein. T Nyong'o Theatre History Studies 34 (1), 146-148, 2015.

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In 2014
62

In Finitude: Being with Jos, Being with Pedro. T Nyongo Social Text 32 (4), 71-85, 2014.

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61

Being with Jos: An Introduction. K Chuh, JJ Guzmn, R Montez, T Nyongo, A Pittman, J Vaccaro Social Text 32 (4), 1-7, 2014.

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60

Afro-philo-sonic fictions: black sound studies after the millennium. T Nyong'o Small Axe 18 (2), 173-179, 2014.

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59

11.Rip It Up: Excess and Ecstasy in Little Richards Sound. T Nyongo Black Performance Theory, 169-183, 2014.

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58

3. Race, reenactment, and the natural-born citizen. T Nyongo Unsettled States, 76-102, 2014.

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57

Unburdening Representation. T Nyong'o The Black Scholar 44 (2), 70-80, 2014.

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56

60 Subject. T Nyongo Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, 231-235, 2014.

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In 2013
55

Situating Precarity between the Body and the Commons. T Nyong'o Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 23 (2), 157-161, 2013.

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54

Punk and its afterlives. J Brown Duke University Press 31, 3, 2013.

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53

Punk and Its Afterlives: Introduction. J Brown, P Deer, T Nyongo Social Text 31 (3), 1-11, 2013.

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52

Different Love?: Introducing the Trans/Queer Issue. T Nyong'o, F Royster Journal of Popular Music Studies 25 (4), 411-414, 2013.

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51

Queer Hip Hop and its Dark Precursors. T Nyongo Palimpsest 2 (2), 144-146, 2013.

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50

Desire. T Nyong'o Contemporary Theatre Review 23 (1), 19-20, 2013.

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49

Unpacking the Z Survival Kit. T Nyong'o American Book Review 34 (2), 5-5, 2013.

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In 2012
48

Queer studies, materialism, and crisis: A roundtable discussion. C Crosby, L Duggan, R Ferguson, K Floyd, M Joseph, H Love, R McRuer, ... GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 18 (1), 127-147, 2012.

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47

Queer Africa and the fantasy of virtual participation. T Nyong'o Women's Studies Quarterly 40 (1/2), 40-63, 2012.

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46

The scene of occupation. T Nyong'o TDR/The Drama Review 56 (4), 136-149, 2012.

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45

Back to the Garden: Queer Ecology in Samuel Delany's Heavenly Breakfast. T Nyong'o American Literary History 24 (4), 747-767, 2012.

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44

Library of Articles. T Nyong'o American Literary History 24 (4), 747-767, 2012.

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43

Punk'd Theory. T Nyong'o Przeglad Kulturoznawczy, 218, 2012.

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42

I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom. T Nyong'o Contemporary Theatre Review 22 (2), 276-278, 2012.

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41

Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2010 by Paul Gilroy. T Nyong'o Journal of Popular Music Studies 24 (1), 107-111, 2012.

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In 2011
40

Have You Seen His Childhood? Song, Screen, and the Queer Culture of the Child in Michael Jackson's Music. T Nyongo Journal of Popular Music Studies 23 (1), 40-57, 2011.

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In 2010
39

The unforgivable transgression of being Caster Semenya. T Nyong'o Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 20 (1), 95-100, 2010.

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38

School daze. T Nyongo Bully Bloggers 30, 2010.

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37

Brown Punk: Kalup Linzy's Musical Anticipations. T Nyong'o TDR/The Drama Review 54 (3), 71-86, 2010.

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36

Trapped in the Closet with Eve. T Nyong'o Criticism 52 (2), 243-251, 2010.

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35

James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile. T Nyong'o AMERICAN QUARTERLY 62 (2), 355-363, 2010.

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34

Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern. T Nyong'o AMERICAN QUARTERLY 62 (2), 355-363, 2010.

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33

The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance. T Nyong'o AMERICAN QUARTERLY 62 (2), 355-363, 2010.

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32

Sex and Sociability. T Nyong'o American Quarterly 62 (2), 355-363, 2010.

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In 2009
31

The amalgamation waltz: Race, performance, and the ruses of memory. TA Ochieng'Nyong U of Minnesota Press, 2009.

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30

The Amalgamation Waltz: Race. T Nyongo Performance, and the Ruses of Memory, 2009.

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29

Social Text. BH Edwards, A Nelson, T Nyong'o Social Text 27 (3), 231-241, 2009.

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28

Unfinished situations. T Nyongo Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 19 (2), 187-203, 2009.

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27

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement. T Nyong'o CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW 19 (4), 496-497, 2009.

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Social Text. T Nyong'o Social text, 239-241, 2009.

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In 2008
25

Do you want queer theory (or do you want the truth)? Intersections of punk and queer in the 1970s. T Nyong o Radical History Review 100, 103, 2008.

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I feel love: disco and its discontents. T Nyong'o Criticism 50 (1), 101-112, 2008.

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23

Period Rush: Affective Transfers in Recent Queer Art and Performance. NO Tavia Theatre History Studies 28 (1), 42-48, 2008.

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22

Kenya's crisis. T Nyong'o NATION 286 (3), 8-9, 2008.

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In 2007
21

I've Got You Under My SkinQueer assemblages, lyrical nostalgia and the African diaspora. T Nyong'o Performance Research 12 (3), 42-54, 2007.

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20

Beautiful bottom, beautiful shame: Where" black" meets" queer". T Nyongo GLQ-A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES 13 (2-3), 403-405, 2007.

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19

Hybridity, or the cultural logic of globalization. T Nyong'o AMERICAN QUARTERLY 59 (2), 459-466, 2007.

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18

Janell Hobson: Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture. T Nyong'o International Journal of Communication 1 (1), 5, 2007.

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In 2006
17

A forum on black theatre: The questions: What is a black play? and/or what is playing black?(vol 57, pg 571, 2005). AD Smith, SL Parks, R McCauley, D Krasner, PC Harrison, T Nyong'o, ... THEATRE JOURNAL 58 (1), 2006.

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16

Recall and response: black women performers & the mapping of memory. J Brown, T Nyongo Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 16 (1), 3-5, 2006.

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15

Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock'n'Roll, and: Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race, and: Afropunk: The" Rock'n'Roll Nigger" Experience. TA Ochieng'Nyong TDR: The Drama Review 50 (1), 183-187, 2006.

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Afropunk: The'Rock'n'Roll Nigger'experience. T Nyong'o TDR-THE DRAMA REVIEW-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES 50 (1), 183-187, 2006.

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13

Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock'n'Roll edited by Kandia Crazy Horse; Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race by Maureen Mahon . T Nyong o DRAMA REVIEW-NEW YORK THEN CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS- 50 (1), 183, 2006.

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In 2005
12

Punk'd theory. T Nyong'o Social Text 23 (3-4), 19-34, 2005.

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11

Black Theatre's Closet Drama. T Nyong'o Theatre Journal 57 (4), 590-592, 2005.

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10

Queer TV: A Comment. TA Ochieng'Nyong GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11 (1), 103-105, 2005.

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9

Passing as politics: Framing black political performance. T Nyong'o Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 15 (1), 53-78, 2005.

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8

What's Queer About Queer Studies Now?. M Cobb, DL Eng, RA Ferguson, E Freeman, G Gopinath, J Halberstam, ... Social Text 23 (3-4), 84-85, 2005.

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In 2002
7

Racial kitsch and black performance. T Nyong'o The Yale Journal of Criticism 15 (2), 371-391, 2002.

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6

The Sense of Brown. J Chambers-Letson, T Nyongo .

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5

TBS TELAcksc-ol AR-. T NYONG'O, D RODRGUEZ .

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4

S&F Online. T Nyong'o .

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3

Dances Posthumous Frequentations. K Ohno, AF Gordon, R Schneider, T Ingold, T Nyongo .

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Courtney Berger, and the staff at Duke University Press, for an unprec-edented responsiveness. Colleagues at Duke University, especially Dean Srinivas Aravamudan and Vice . A Hannan, A Hawkins, C Hickman, T McDonald, CH Rux, P Sneed, ... .

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founding board of advisors Marcia Citron, Rice University Annegret Fauser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Eve R. Meyer, Editor, IAWM Journal. J Pasler, CP Smith, J Tsou, N Andr, L Barg, DA Brooks, SG Cusick, ... .

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