Tavia Nyong’o

Tavia Nyong’o is Chair and William Lampson Professor of Performance Studies, American Studies, African-American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Nyong’o has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Society for Theatre Research, the Ford Foundation, the Jacob K. Javits Foundation, and the British Marshall Foundation. Nyong’o has also curated public programs at the Park Avenue Armory. He is the author of Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018) and editor-at-large for the journal Social Text. Nyong’o lives and works in New Haven.