April 14, 2022
Anne McClintock

Anne McClintock “Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice”. 

Anne McClintock is the A Barton Hepburn Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is on the Executive Committee of the Program in American Studies and is an Affiliate at the Princeton Environmental Institute. McClintock’s interdisciplinary and transnational work—both scholarly and creative—explores the intersections between race, gender, and sexualities; imperialism and globalization, including Indigenous studies; visual culture and mass media; sexual and gender violence; militarization, climate chaos, and animal studies.

McClintock is a public writer, photographer, and activist, who is the author of Imperial Leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1995) among other texts (Imperial Leather is translated into Portuguese as Couro Imperial - Raça, Gênero E Sexualidade No Embate (2018, second edition, 2019). McClintock has written monographs Simone de Beauvoir (Scribners), Olive Schreiner (Scribners), and Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism (2001). She co-edited Dangerous Liaisons. Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (1995) with Aamir Mufti and Ella Shohat; Queer Transexions of Race, Nation and Gender (1997) with Jose Esteban Munos and Philip Harper; and Sex Workers and Sex Work (1995).

McClintock has written over 100 articles, essays, and reviews for public and academic venues. Her creative essays and photographs have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Guernica Magazine, Teen Vogue, E-Flux Magazine, The Nation, Jacobin, Truth Out, Edge Effects, The Times Literary Supplement, The Village Voice, among others. Her academic articles have appeared in PMLA, Critical Inquiry, Transition, Boundary II, New Formations, South Atlantic Quarterly, among other venues.

She has won numerous awards, including two MacArthur Fellowships, Human Rights Fellowship (Columbia University), Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (Columbia University), 4 Presidential Fellowships (Columbia University). She has been awarded fifteen artist residency Fellowships at MacDowell Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Center for the Arts, Yaddo, and Dorland.  Her photographs have been widely exhibited, most recently at the Chicago Architectural Biennial (2019); also at TBA 21 Academy, Venice (2020); and at Oceans in Transformation, Venice, (2020). Her photographic project “The Future is Now” appeared at Slought Gallery, “Collaborations” Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania, 2018, and is published in Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, led by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford and Laura Wexler (Fall 2020). Her current book Unquiet Ghosts. From the Forever War to Climate Chaos (Duke University Trade Series) covers issues of invasive colonialism and indigeneity, photography, climate chaos, mass displacements of people, other species and land, rising waters, militarization and carceral modernity.

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