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Professor / Head Graduate Advisor
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Roshanak Kheshti is a queer cultural theorist whose work broadly encompasses performance through race, gender, sexuality and the senses. Her first book Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music analyzes the politics of listening in global music production. Her second book Switched-on Bach tells a cultural history of Wendy Carlos’s best-selling album. Her third book We See with the Skin: On Zora Neale Hurston’s Methodology, is an examination of Hurston’s prolific corpus through a synesthetic and hoodoo-centric framework. She has additionally published widely on Iranian diaspora cultural production in sound and cinema.
Education: Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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