Research Interest

Performance Studies, Latina/o Cultural Studies, Sexual Cultures, Feminist and Queer Theory, Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis

Biography

Joshua Javier Guzmán is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University and is a former University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow from UC Berkeley’s Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. He co-edited a special issue of Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory entitled “Lingering in Latinidad: Aesthetics, Theory and Performance in Latina/o Studies.” Joshua is currently working on a book-length project tentatively titled Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style, which examines Latina/o stylized dissatisfactions with not only the US nation-state but also the activism responding to systemic state violence within a very contentious post-1968 Los Angeles.

Publications

published work can be found here: https://ucla.academia.edu/JoshuaJavierGuzman

Education

• Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University
• M.A., Performance Studies, New York University
• B.S., Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Awards

• Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Career Enhancement Junior Faculty Fellowship/Mellon Foundation, (2020-2021)
• UCLA Faculty Career Development Award, (2019-2020)

Projects

• Brown Exposures: Queer Photography and the Literary Aperture (manuscript in progress)
• A Song to the Siren: Non-relation and the Lyrical Voice (manuscript in progress)