Tavia Nyong’o is Chair and William Lampson Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Professor of African-American Studies at Yale University. Nyong’o is a member of the Practicing Refusal Collective, and joined the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class, University of Johannesburg, in 2021 as a Research Associate. He is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009) and Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018). He is currently embarking on a study of critical negativity in recent black studies. Professor Nyong’o is also a Research Associate with The Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. 

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