Keynote: José Esteban Muñoz

Lecture: “After Jack: Queer Virtuosity, Queer Failure”

José Esteban Muñoz chairs the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He is the author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999), and the forthcoming volumes Cruising Utopia and Feeling Brown. He has co-edited Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996), Everynight Life: Culture and Music in Latin/o America (1997), and special issues of the journals Social Text (2005) and Women and Performance (1996).