Roderick Ferguson is Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies, and is affiliated with the Departments of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and African American & African Studies at the University of Minnesota. His areas of specialization include African-American literature, queer theory and queer studies, classical and contemporary social theory, African-American intellectual history, sociology of race and ethnic relations, and black cultural theory. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2003) and of articles and essays in such journals as American Quarterly, Radical History Review, Social Text, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, as well as in the anthologies James Baldwin Now (1999), Black Queer Studies (2005), Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy (2007), A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies (2008), and Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies (2010). He is also the co-editor with Grace Kyungwon Hong of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (2011), and is currently completing a manuscript entitled The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference.
All interested graduate students are welcome to attend and participate in the workshop. Please note that, due to scheduling issues, this workshop will not be offered for formal credit. For information about and access to the readings (there is no writing requirement), please contact Joe Ponce at ponce.8@osu.edu.
