Shoniqua Roach, PhD

Shoniqua Roach is assistant professor of African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. An American Council of Learned Societies and Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, her peer-reviewed work appears in American Quarterly, boundary 2, differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, Feminist Formations, Feminist Theory, Journal of American Culture, Signs: journal of women in culture and society, and The Black Scholar, among other venues.

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Professor Roach is editor of “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women In the Middle West: A Commemoration,” a Signs: journal of women in culture and society symposium that commemorates Darlene Clark Hine’s 1989 essay "Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women" and "Inside the Black (W)hole: a queer black feminist retrospective," a differences: journal of feminist cultural studies issue that commemorates "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality" (1994) by Evelynn M. Hammonds. She is co-editor (with Samantha Pinto) of a special issue of The Black Scholar on "Black Privacy." 

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She is currently at work on her book manuscript, Black Dwelling: Home-Making and Erotic Freedom, an intellectual and cultural history of the ways in which Black homes have been tragic sites of state invasion, as well as paradigmatic entry-points for Black women artists, activists, and intellectuals to imagine, rehearse, and enact Black erotic freedom.