Tavia Nyong'o
{{Short description|American historian (born 1974)}}
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Tavia Nyong'o (born 1974){{citation needed|date=April 2022}} is a critic and scholar of art and performance. He is William Lampson professor of African American studies, American studies and theater and performance studies at Yale University where he teaches courses on black diaspora performance, cultural studies, and critical and aesthetic theory.
Education
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Nyong'o received his B.A. from Wesleyan University. He then received a Marshall Scholarship to study at the University of Birmingham (England). In 2003, he received his PhD in American studies from Yale, where he studied under the mentorship of Paul Gilroy and Joseph Roach. Nyong'o was the 2004 runner-up for the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Award given by the American Studies Association annually for the best doctoral dissertation written in the field of American studies.
Career
Nyong'o is professor of African American studies, American studies and theater and performance studies at Yale University{{Cite web|title=Tavia Nyong'o {{!}} Theater and Performance Studies|url=https://theaterstudies.yale.edu/people/tavia-nyongo|access-date=2020-12-25|website=theaterstudies.yale.edu|language=en}} where he teaches courses on black diaspora performance, cultural studies, social and critical theory. Prior to his appointment at Yale, Nyong'o taught in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.
His book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory, is published by the University of Minnesota Press (2009),{{Cite journal|last=Dagbovie|first=Sika Alaine|date=2011-03-22|title=Tavia Nyong'o. The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=10624783&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA278172241&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|journal=African American Review|language=en|volume=44|issue=1–2|pages=317–320|doi=10.1353/afa.2011.0017|s2cid=161805360|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Paulin|first=Diana R.|date=2012-03-01|title=Amalgamation waltz: Race, performance, and the ruses of memory, by Tavia Nyong|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2012.685400|journal=Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory|volume=22|issue=1|pages=151–154|doi=10.1080/0740770X.2012.685400|s2cid=194095457|issn=0740-770X|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=JONES|first=DOUGLAS A.|date=2011|title=Review of THE AMALGAMATION WALTZ: RACE, PERFORMANCE, AND THE RUSES OF MEMORY|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41307521|journal=Theatre Journal|volume=63|issue=1|pages=136–138|doi=10.1353/tj.2011.0003|jstor=41307521|s2cid=194946360|issn=0192-2882|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Colbert|first=Soyica D.|date=2012-02-24|title=The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance, and: The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/466485|journal=TDR: The Drama Review|language=en|volume=56|issue=1|pages=158–160|doi=10.1162/DRAM_r_00151|issn=1531-4715|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Zack|first=Naomi|date=2010-06-01|title=The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2010.481885|journal=American Nineteenth Century History|volume=11|issue=2|pages=269–270|doi=10.1080/14664658.2010.481885|s2cid=145226817|issn=1466-4658|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Byrne|first=Kevin|date=November 2011|title=The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory. By Tavia Nyong'o. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009; pg. 248.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-survey/article/abs/amalgamation-waltz-race-performance-and-the-ruses-of-memory-by-tavia-nyongo-minneapolis-university-of-minnesota-press-2009-pp-248-6750-cloth-2250-paper-embodying-black-experience-stillness-critical-memory-and-the-black-body-by-harvey-young-ann-arbor-university-of-michigan-press-2010-pp-272-8000-cloth-3250-paper/117482863C6A92D4A23FF7F5B490A14B|journal=Theatre Survey|language=en|volume=52|issue=2|pages=348–351|doi=10.1017/S0040557411000482|issn=1475-4533|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Raimondo|first=Meredith|date=2010-01-01|title=Review: The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, And The Ruses Of Memory|url=https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/faculty_schol/1530|journal=Contemporary Theatre Review|doi=10.1080/10486801003684290|s2cid=218547674|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Colbert|first=Soyica D.|date=2012-02-13|title=The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance. By Shane Vogel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009; 257 pp. $60.00 cloth, $17.00 paper. The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory. By Tavia Nyong'o. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009; 230 pp. $67.50 cloth, $17.82 paper|url=https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_r_00151|journal=TDR/The Drama Review|volume=56|issue=1|pages=158–160|doi=10.1162/DRAM_r_00151|issn=1054-2043|url-access=subscription}} and won the Errol Hill Award.{{cite web |title=Errol Hill Awards |url=https://www.astr.org/page/AwardWinnerArchive#errolhill |website=ASTR |access-date= 2019-02-28}}
In addition, Nyong'o has published articles in The Nation,{{cite web|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/kenyas-rigged-election/ |title=Kenya's Rigged Election|website=The Nation|first=Tavia|last=Nyong'o|date=2008-01-03|access-date=2022-09-18}} n+1, the Yale Journal of Criticism, Social Text, Theatre Journal,{{cite journal|last1=Nyong'o|first1=Tavia|date=2005|title=Black Theatre's Closet Drama|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25069722|journal=Theatre Journal|volume=57|issue=4|pages=590–92|doi=10.1353/tj.2006.0037 |jstor=25069722 |access-date=2022-11-24|url-access=subscription}} and GLQ.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}
Personal life
Nyong'o, who is of Luo heritage, was born in the Midwestern United States, and raised there and in Kenya.{{cite web | url=https://ezrastiles.yalecollege.yale.edu/tavia-nyongo | title=Tavia Nyong'o | Ezra Stiles College }} He is a cousin of Academy Award winning actress Lupita Nyong'o.{{Cite web|last1=Cowles|first1=Charlotte|last2=Holmes|first2=Sally|date=2013-10-18|title=A Primer: Lupita Nyong'o, Gorgeous Rising Star|url=https://www.thecut.com/2013/10/primer-lupita-nyongo-gorgeous-rising-star.html|access-date=2020-12-25|website=The Cut|publisher=New York Magazine|language=en-us}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/nyong%27o_amalgamation.html "The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory"]
- [http://performance.tisch.nyu.edu/object/NyongoT.html NYU Performance Studies bio on Nyong'o] – accessed on 2007-05-15
- [http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/about/prizes.htm#Gabriel Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Award]
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Category:American people of Luo descent
Category:Wesleyan University alumni