Shaka McGlotten
Professor, Media Studies & Anthropology
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, PURCHASE COLLEGE
Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies program and the Co-Chair of Media Studies. From 2017-2024, they also served as Chair of Global Black Studies.
An anthropologist and artist, McGlotten’s interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of black study, queer theory, digital media, and contemporary art. Their work investigates emerging networked intimacies, messy computational entanglements, and their impacts on queer of color lifeworlds.
They are the author of Dragging: Or, In the Drag of a Queer Life (Routledge, 2021) and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (SUNY Press, 2013). They are also the co-editor of two edited collections, Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dana-ain Davis) and Zombies and Sexuality (with Steve Jones). Data & Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and The Andy Warhol Foundation have supported their work.
With Helen V. Pritchard they co-edit the MIT/Goldsmiths Future Media book series, and with Sareeta Amrute, Alex Cho, and Rachel Kuo, the Critical Race and Digital Studies book series with New York University Press.
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