Miranda Joseph is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and affiliated faculty in the Departments of English and Geography and Regional Development.
She received her PhD from the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University in 1995. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center (1997-98), a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College (1999-2000) and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality (November, 2007), based at the University of Kent. She served for many years as Director of the Committee on LGBT Studies and as Director of the Sex, Race and Globalization Project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation (2000-2005). She is the author of Against the Romance of Community (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Her research brings together Marxist and poststructuralist theory to explore the mutually constitutive relationship between community and capitalism. She uses the tools of cultural studies - theory, ethnography, discourse analysis - to explore the production of contemporary social formations.She teaches Marxist, poststructuralist and queer theory, cultural studies methods, and introductory level courses in Women's Studies and LGBT studies.
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