Michael Moses El, Self Portrait with Desi, PhotoChange LLC and Michael Moses El, 1985.
Nicole R. Fleetwood is Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is a writer, curator, and art critic whose interests are contemporary black diasporic art and visual culture, photography studies, art and public practice, performance studies, gender and feminist studies, black cultural history, creative nonfiction, prison abolition and carceral studies, and poverty studies.
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Speaker
Nicole Fleetwood
Nicole Fleetwood
Rutgers University
Professor Fleetwood is the author of three books: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard University Press, 2020), On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination (Rutgers University Press, 2015), and Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, which was the recipient of the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association. Her articles appear in African American Review, American Quarterly, Aperture, Callaloo: Art and Culture in the African Diaspora, The Conversation, LitHub, Public Books, Public Culture, Signs, Social Text, art catalogues, and edited anthologies.
In 2016-2017, she was the ACLS/NYPL Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library, and an inaugural Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellow. She is also the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, American Council of Learned Societies, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NJ Council for the Humanities, Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, the Ford Foundation, and Puffin Foundation.
Fleetwood is co-editor of Aperture magazine’s “Prison Nation,” a special issue focusing on photography’s role in documenting mass incarceration. She has co/curated exhibitions and public programs on art and mass incarceration at the Andrew Freedman Home, Aperture, Cleveland Public Library, Zimmerli Museum of Art, Mural Arts Philadelphia, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, and Worth Rises. In 2014, she co-organized “Marking Time: Prison Art and Activism,” a conference and six-site exhibition with the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers.
Fleetwood received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature and her B.Phil. from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University (Ohio). She is a series associate editor of the ten-volume series Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender Studies and co-editor of a special issue of Feminist Formations on poverty, gender, and sexuality (forthcoming). Fleetwood is on the editorial committee for Rutgers University Press, an editorial collective member of Social Text, and on the advisory