Background
José Esteban Muñoz was born on August 9, 1967, in Havana, Cuba.
2013
José Esteban Muñoz gives keynote lecture at Duke’s 2013 Feminist Theory Workshop in May
José Esteban Muñoz with Karen Tongson
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In 1989, Muñoz received a Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature from Sarah Lawrence College.
Durham, NC 27708, USA
Muñoz received a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University in 1994.
(Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous q...)
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory.
https://www.amazon.com/Pop-Out-Queer-Warhol-Q/dp/0822317419/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the ...)
The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies.
https://www.amazon.com/Everynight-Life-Culture-America-Otherwise/dp/0822319195/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(Until now, queer theory has largely been silent about que...)
Until now, queer theory has largely been silent about questions of race, especially when considered in an international context. Much postcolonial theory has been silent about questions regarding gender and sexuality. This special issue of Social Text explores the relations between race and queer sexuality by focusing on the politics of transgression in a transnational world.
https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Transexions-Nation-Gender-Social/dp/0822364522/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(There is more to identity than identifying with one’s cul...)
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.
https://www.amazon.com/Disidentifications-Performance-Politics-Cultural-Americas/dp/0816630151/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work - ...)
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work - an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars.
https://www.amazon.com/Cruising-Utopia-10th-Anniversary-Futurity/dp/1479874566/?tag=2022091-20
2009
José Esteban Muñoz was born on August 9, 1967, in Havana, Cuba.
In 1989, Muñoz received a Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature from Sarah Lawrence College, and a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University in 1994.
Muñoz wrote about artists, performers, and cultural figures. He was Professor in, and former Chair of, the Department of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He also was a member of the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York and member of Executive Committee on Popular Culture.
Muñoz was working on his third book, The Sense of Brown: Ethnicity, Affect and Performance, at the time of his death. His first book, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999) examines the performance, activism, and survival of queer people of color through the optics of performance studies. His second book, Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity, was published by NYU Press in 2009. In addition to his two single-authored books, Muñoz co-edited the books Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996) with Jennifer Doyle and Jonathan Flatley and Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (1997) with Celeste Fraser Delgado. Along with Ann Pellegrini, José Muñoz was the founding series editor for NYU Press's influential Sexual Cultures book series which premiered in 1998.
(Until now, queer theory has largely been silent about que...)
1997(A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work - ...)
2009(The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the ...)
1997(There is more to identity than identifying with one’s cul...)
1999(Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous q...)
1996José’s lifelong passion was to express the utopian gesture that responds to the awfulness of things as they are. The work of balancing hope against despair ran through his writings from the earliest to the most recent, and it was a work he associated with the queer, the minoritarian, and the brown. Under his attention, those terms became not generic categories but critical passageways. Queerness, for José, named the possible but also the “not yet.” The “sense of brown” indicated a form of discontinuous commonality, “not knowable in advance” but actually existing as a world, in the here and now. He mined a Marxist tradition that included Althusser, Bloch, Adorno, Fredric Jameson, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and used this radical tradition to show how the affirmations in his work required negations of and deviations from the status quo.
Muñoz was a member of the Modern Language Association. He was also affiliated with the American Studies Association, and the College Art Association.