Kadji Amin
Kadji Amin, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago.
Dr. Amin joined the Department of HHSS in the Fall of 2010.
He was awarded a PhD in Romance Studies (French) and a graduate Certificate in
Feminist Studies from Duke University in 2009, an MA in Romance Studies
(French) from Duke University in 2008, and a BA in French from New College of
Florida in 2002.
Dr. Amin's current book project contributes to the recent
historical turn in queer studies by studying the misalignment between French
twentieth-century author, playwright, filmmaker, and activist Jean Genet's
modes of pre gay-liberation queerness and the foundational narratives of
Anglophone queer scholarship and activism since the 1990s that he appears to
uncannily mirror. It traces, within Genet's work and life practices,
non-developmental and anti-chronological modes of temporality and forgotten
queer genealogies that powerfully decenter progressivist accounts of queer
politics and history.
Dr. Amin has published in French Studies and in Chiasmi
International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty. He
is currently finishing an article on the anti-colonial genealogy of racial
melancholia.
Dr. Amin is no stranger to the arts. He is a graduate of the
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, where he studied
trumpet. He performed in contemporary music ensembles throughout his
undergraduate career at New College of Florida, where he also directed the
school's Slavic Vocal Ensemble. He currently plays trumpet and harmonica in the
Durham-based Americana indie rock band Humble Tripe.
Contact Dr. Amin:
Mail:
Dr. Kadji Amin
Columbia College Chicago
Department of HHSS
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL
60605
Phone:
312-369-7693
Email:
kamin@colum.edu
