Jasbir Puar
Professor at Rutgers University, USA
Jasbir Puar
Jasbir K. Puar is Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, USA. Her most recent book is “The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability” (2017, Duke University Press). Puar is the author of the award-winning “Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times” (2007, Duke University Press), re-issued in an expanded version for its tenth anniversary (2017), which has been translated into Spanish, French and soon in Greek. Puar’s edited volumes include a special issue of ‘GLQ’ (“Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization”) and co-edited volumes of ‘Society and Space’ (“Sexuality and Space”), ‘Social Text’ (“Interspecies”) and ‘Women’s Studies Quarterly’ (“Viral”). Puar’s major awards include a 2018 Fellowship from the Palestinian American Research Council, the 2013-14 Society for the Humanities Fellowship at Cornell University, the Edward Said Chair of American Studies 2012-13 at the American University of Beirut, a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center (1999-2000) and a Ford Foundation grant for archival and ethnographic documentation work (2002-2003). Her writings have been translated into Polish, French, German, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Danish, and Greek. Currently Professor Puar is completing her third book, a collection of essays on duration, pace, mobility, and acceleration in Palestine titled “Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts.”