Joshua Chambers-Letson

Joshua Chambers-Letson is associate professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of After the Party: Performance and Queer of Color Life (NYU Press, forthcoming July 2018) and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (NYU Press, 2013 and winner of ATHE’s 2014 Outstanding Book Award). With Tavia Nyongo’o and Ann Pellegrini he is a series co-editor of the Sexual Cultures series at NYU Press. He has published widely in the areas of performance theory, critical race theory, and queer of color critique, covering the work of artists that include Nao Bustamante, Danh Võ, Nina Simone, Tseng Kwong Chi, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Alexandria Eregbu, Eiko, Tehching Hsieh, and Wafaa Bilal.