Hear Duke alum Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou talk about her personal and academic trajectories through Duke, graduate school, and life.
Dr. Malaklou is a critical race, gender, and sexuality studies scholar with expertise in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Her research argues that gender and sexuality are produced as identity and type through the exclusion of Black people from Euro-American discourses of modernity - or, from its social and political construction of time (i.e., its chronopolitics). This research contributes significantly not just to the study of racial Blackness but also to how we understand how the non-Black subaltern. Beyond writing for academic journals, she regularly publishes think pieces, most recently in The Conversationalist, The Feminist Wire, and CounterPunch, and periodically contributes to Always Already: A Critical Theory Podcast as the Frantz Fanon correspondent. In addition to her appointment at Berea College, Dr. Malaklou serves as visiting faculty in the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University in Montreal. She received her PhD in Culture and Theory and graduate certificates in Critical Theory and Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of California, Irvine and her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies from Duke University.
This event is sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, the Focus program at Duke, and Juhood Magazine.