Jennifer Christine Nash, Ph.D.,
Harvard University, Department of African American Studies
 

Jennifer Christine Nash received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004, and her Ph.D. in African American Studies from Harvard University in 2009. Her research focuses on black sexual politics, black feminism, and the intersection of race, gender, and visual culture. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Social Text, Feminist Review, Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal, Cardozo Women’s Law Journal, and International Journal of Feminist Politics.

As a fellow, Jennifer will work on developing her dissertation into a book. The manuscript, The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography, studies representations of black women in moving-image hard-core pornography from the Golden Age until the present. She will also begin work on a second project which traces the emergence of Brazil as a racial and sexual fantasy site for African-Americans.

Jennifer has previously taught in the African American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies departments at Harvard University. At Columbia, she will teach Contemporary Civilization in the fall, and a seminar, “Black Feminist Thought: Theory, Politics, Activism,” in the spring.

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