Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of two books, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance and the Ruses of Memory (U Minnesota Press, 2009) and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (New York U Press, 2018). His new book, Black Apocalypse, will appear in 2025 from U California Press in its American Studies Now series. Nyong’o works on black performance, queer of color critique, critical theory, speculative fiction, and contemporary art and music. Since 2021 he has served as a curator of the public program at the Park Avenue Armory, where he has organized events such as “Sound & Color: The Future of Race in Design,” “Hapo na Zamani: The Black Arts Movement Examined,” and “Antagonisms: A Gathering.” He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Social Text and TDR, as well as the Sexual Cultures book series of NYU Press. He has also written for The Nation, n+1, The Baffler, Art Forum, Vogue, Public Books, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.