Jennifer DeVere Brody

Jennifer DeVere Brody is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University where she also works with Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity and the program in Feminist ,Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her books, Impossible Purities and Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play were both published by Duke University Press and explore questions of racialization, gender, sexuality, visuality and performance. Her scholarly work has appeared in edited volumes and in journals such as Genders, Signs, Theater Journal, Callaloo, and Screen. She was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a research award from the Royal Society of Theater Scholars and a Monette-Horwitz Prize for Independent Research to combat homophobia. She is writing about James Baldwin’s children’s book and a completing a new project about sculpture and race.