Marlon Bailey
{{Short description|American academic}}
Marlon M. Bailey is a professor of African American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and an affiliate professor of theater and drama at Washington University in St. Louis.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-03-29 |title=Marlon M. Bailey |url=https://afas.wustl.edu/people/marlon-m-bailey |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=Department of African and African-American Studies |language=en}} He previously taught at Arizona State University and the University of California, San Francisco, in the Department of Medicine.{{cite book|author=Patricia A. Matthew|title=Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKMwDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA120|date=3 October 2016|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-4696-2772-4|pages=120–}}[http://www.startribune.com/ballroom-culture-is-more-than-a-drag/212992641/ "Ballroom culture is more than a drag"]. By Kristin Tillotson, Star Tribune, June 26, 2013
Bailey writes and researches in the area of African-American studies.{{cite book|author=Samuel Cruz|title=Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSqpwKjk-BEC&pg=PA62|year=2013|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7391-7675-7|pages=62–}} He also has written about LGBT subcultures,{{cite book|author=Stan Hawkins|title=Queerness in Pop Music: Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a780CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT244|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-58971-6|pages=244–}} and in particular topics which involve both subjects.{{cite book|author=Tiya Miles|title=Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V20CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA145|date=12 August 2015|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-4696-2634-5|pages=145–}}{{cite book|author1=Jean Muteba Rahier|author2=Percy C. Hintzen|author3=Felipe Smith|title=Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3r6RdOdjZ3AC&pg=PR23|year=2010|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-07753-1|pages=23–}}
Bailey is also a director, actor, and performance artist. The most recent play that he acted in was in 2006, The Hard Evidence of existence: a Black Gay Sex (Love Show, directed by Cedric Brown. His most recent directing was in 2002 Blackness: Perspectives in Color in the Durham Studio, UC-Berkeley.
Publications
- Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150526004853/http://www.pqmonthly.com/butch-queens-up-in-pumps-houseball-culture-today/22705 "“Butch Queens Up In Pumps”: House/Ball Culture Today"]}}. PQ Monthly, May 20, 2015[http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/02/22/butch-queens-up-in-pumps-gender-performance-and-ballroom-culture-in-detroit-by-marlon-m-bailey/ Lambda Literary, Reviews: Nonfiction: article “Butch queens up in pumps: Gender Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit’ by Marlon M. Bailey”] By Chase Dimock. Retrieved March 13, 2015{{cite book|author1=Dána-Ain Davis|author2=Christa Craven|title=Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUR5DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|date=1 June 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-7591-2246-8|pages=47–}} {{ISBN|9780472071968}} winner of the Alan Bray Memorial book prize.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} Bailey writes about ballroom culture in Detroit and its role in helping the Black LGBT community overcome the challenges of racism, AIDS, homophobia, and poverty.[http://michiganradio.org/post/exploring-ballroom-culture-detroit#stream/0 " Exploring "Ballroom Culture" in Detroit"]. Michigan Radio, Dec 19, 2013
=Journal articles=
- “Engendering Space: Ballroom Culture and the Spatial Practice of Possibility in Detroit”, Gender, Place and Culture: The Journal of Feminist Geography, 2013
- “Gender/Racial Realness: Theorizing the gender system in ballroom culture,” Race and Transgender Issues: A Special Issue Feminist Studies 37.2, 2011
- “Performance as Intervention: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit,” Special Issue of Gender and Sexuality: Souls: a Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, 2009
- “Reflections on a Conversation with Efua Sutherland: and Artist with a Vision,” Connecticut Review, Vol.XX.1, 1998
Awards
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- Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, 2015
- Finalist for the Lambda Literary Book Award in LGBT Studies 2014
- Co-Winner of the Modern Language Association/GLQ Caucus's Compton-Noll Prize for best article in LGBTQ Studies
References
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External links
- [http://africam.berkeley.edu/person/marlon-m.-bailey African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies, “People, Marlon M. Bailey”] Retrieved March, 13th 2015
- [http://www.indiana.edu/~gender/people/bailey.shtml Indiana University, Bloomington, Department of Gender Studies, “Marlon M. Bailey”], Retrieved March 13, 2015
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