“Being Otherwise, Being Grace Jones: Performing on the Outer Limits”

Uri McMillan, Associate Professor of African-American Studies, English, Gender Studies, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a cultural historian who researches and writes in the interstices between black cultural studies, performance studies, queer theory, and contemporary art. His first book, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance (NYU, 2015) is on black performance art, objecthood, and avatars staged by black women artists.