Shaka McGlotten
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- Dragging: In the Drag of a Queer Life
- Black Genders and Sexualities (with Dána-Ain Davis)
- Zombie Sexuality: Essays on Sex and the Living Dead (with Steve Jones)
- Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
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| Occupation | Writer, professor |
| Education | University of Texas at Austin |
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Shaka McGlotten is a social anthropologist and Professor of Media Studies at the State University of New York at Purchase, where they have also served as the chair of Gender Studies and Global Black Studies since 2017. McGlotten's work reflects an interest in critically examining two strains of feminist thinking: feminist science and technology studies and affect theory.
McGlotten was born in Willingboro Township, New Jersey, and moved to Germany as a young child. Their father, Clifford McGlotten, was in the U.S. Army and the family traveled extensively as a result. The 1980s were spent between San Antonio, TX, and various cities in Germany, including Nürnberg, Berlin, and Frankfurt. They received their B.A. studio art from Grinnell College in 1997, before going on to receive their Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005.
Career
In 2006, they began their position as assistant professor of Media Studies at Purchase College. A year later, they contributed a chapter titled "Virtual Intimacies" for David Phillips and Kate O'Riordan's collection, Queer Online: Media Technology and Sexuality.[1] McGlotten continued writing numerous chapters and articles before publishing their first book, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality'[2] in 2013. The following year, the collection, Zombies and Sexuality: Essays on Desire and the Living Dead[3] (co-edited with Steve Jones) was published. Their second book, Dragging: In the Drag of a Queer Life,[4] which takes an ethnographic approach in documenting the influence of drag on several artists and activists, was published in August 2021.
