Department and Institution:
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
Bio/CV:
Roshanak Kheshti is Chair of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture and Associate Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research explores the intersection of gender, race and sexuality with the senses and perception. She is the author of We See with the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Methodology (Duke, forthcoming), Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (NYU Press, 2015) and Switched-on Bach (Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3, 2019). She has a Ph.D. in CulturalAnthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
