Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Black studiesFeminist TheoryBlack feminist theoryQueer StudiesAfrican Diasporic Literature, Film, and ArtBlack Performance
Scholarship and Biography
Dr. Shoniqua Roach is a queer black feminist writer and Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her peer-reviewed work appears in American Quarterly, boundary 2, differences, Feminist Theory,and Signs,among other venues. Her editorial work appears in differences, Signs, and The Black Scholar. Roach’s forthcoming book manuscript, Black Dwelling: Home-Making and Erotic Freedom, offers an intellectual and cultural history of black domestic spaces as tragic sites of state invasion and black feminist enactments of erotic freedom. Roach has been awarded a number of awards, fellowships, and grants, including those from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Studies Association, and the Ford Foundation.
Organizational Affiliations
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,
Department of African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,
Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University