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Symposium 2010
Next Lecture ~ Oct. 20, 2009 6:00 pm ~ Kelly Writer's House
"I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and the Politics of Affect"
Jasbir Puar
Jasbir Puar is Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and diaspora studies; South Asian cultural studies; and theories of assemblage and affect.
She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007, Duke University Press), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Her edited volumes include a special issue of GLQ titled, Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization (2002, Duke University Press). Puar has also authored numerous articles that appear in journals including "Gender, Place, and Culture," "Social Text," "Radical History Review," "Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography," and "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society."