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Jeanne Vaccaro

Office Hours

Fall 2016:  Mon and Wed 2-3pm

Jeanne Vaccaro earned a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University (2012) and held an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in Sexuality Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-14). She is a research fellow at the Kinsey Institute and postdoctoral fellow in Gender Studies at Indiana University (2014-17). 

Jeanne works at the intersection of performance, visual culture, feminist art and archives, histories of the body, and queer studies. She is the curator of Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics, organized for the Cooper Union (one of ArtNet's most memorable museum shows of 2015). Jeanne is the editor of “The Transbiological Body” (Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory) on transgender reproductive ecologies and is published in GLQRadical History ReviewTSQ, and The Journal of Modern Craft. With Reina Gossett and A.J. Lewis she co-organizes the New York City Transgender Oral History Project.

Courses Taught

fall 2016

spring 2014

fall 2013

ENGL 290.402 Feminist/Queer Aesthetic