WHAP! Lecture Series
Ronak K. Kapadia is
assistant professor of gender and women’s studies and affiliated faculty in Global Asian Studies and Museum and Exhibition Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is
author of the forthcoming
Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke UP, 2019), which examines the visionary, world-making potential of contemporary art and aesthetics in the context of ongoing US war and empire in the Greater Middle East. With Katherine McKittrick and Simone Browne, he is co-editor of the 2017 special issue of
Surveillance & Society on race and surveillance. His writings appear in
Asian American Literary Review,
Journal of Popular Music Studies,
Feminist Formations, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and edited volumes including:
Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa,
Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, and
With Stones in Our Hands: Reflections on Racism, Muslims and US Empire. Kapadia has begun research toward his second book project,
The Downward Redistribution of Breath, which develops a critical feminist theory of healing/justice in the wilds of imperial decline.