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February 25, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Tavia Nyong’o Tavia Nyong’o, the newly appointed William Lampson Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Professor of African American Studies, works on historical and contemporary approaches to Black performance. His appointment was effective January 1. A member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, his current research, teaching, and advising focuses on the longue durée of speculation as it relates to Black lives. This includes courses on speculative fiction and performance, critical theories of speculative realism, and studies of Black affect and aesthetics. His work asks how objects of speculation become subjects of speculation in the long afterlives of slavery, and sees Black dissidence in gender and sexuality as a crucial part of how this story must be told. ....