Education
In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, where he studied under the mentorship of Paul Gilroy and Joseph Roach.
In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, where he studied under the mentorship of Paul Gilroy and Joseph Roach.
He is currently an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University where he teaches courses on black diaspora performance, cultural studies, social and critical theory. Nyong'o received his B.A. from Wesleyan University. He then received a Marshall Scholarship to study at the University of Birmingham.
His book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory, is published by the University of Minnesota Press (2009). In addition, Nyong'o has published articles in The Nation, n+1, the Yale Journal of Criticism, Social Text, Theatre Journal, Performance Research, GLQ, and Women and Performance. He has written on racial kitsch, televised politics, Afro-punk aesthetics, and on African American historical memory.
