Nicole Fleetwood

Holds a BPhil (1994) from Miami University and an MA (1998) and PhD (2001) from Stanford University. From 2005 to 2021, she was affiliated with Rutgers University at New Brunswick, with appointments in the Departments of American Studies and Art History. Fleetwood is currently the James Weldon Johnson Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her additional publications include the books Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality and Blackness (2011) and On Racial Icons (2015) and articles in Artforum, African American Review, Aperture, Callaloo, and LitHub. Fleetwood’s co-curated exhibitions have appeared at the Andrew Freedman Home, Aperture Foundation Galleries, and Zimmerli Museum of Art, among other venues.