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.”