Jennifer Christine Nash | Scholars@Duke

Jennifer Christine Nash
Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor

Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She earned her PhD in African American Studies at Harvard University and her JD at Harvard Law School. She is the author of three books: The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association), Black Feminism Reimagined (awarded the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women's Studies Association), and Birthing Black Mothers. She is also the editor of Gender: Love (Macmillan, 2016). Her research has been supported by the ACLS/Burkhardt Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute, and the Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship.

Current Research Interests

black feminist theory; intersectionality; black sexual politics; black motherhood and black maternal health; birth work; race and law; feminist legal theory

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Distinguished Professor, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020
Professor of Gender, Sexuality &Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020

Contact Information

jennifer.nash@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Harvard University 2009
Recognition
In the News
- AUG 20, 2021 Duke University Press
  
  The 'Black Mother' as a Powerful Political Category
- OCT 16, 2020
  
  Jennifer Nash: Unsettling the Romances of Black Feminism
- AUG 13, 2020 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  
  New Major Offers Global Perspective on Gender Across the World
Awards & Honors
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Nash, Jennifer C. Birthing Black Mothers (Accepted), 2021.
  - Nash, Jennifer C. Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality. Duke University Press, 2018.
  - Nash, Jennifer C. Gender Love, 2017.
  - Nash, Jennifer C. The Black Body in Ecstasy Reading Race, Reading Pornography. Duke University Press, 2014.
- Academic Articles
  - Nash, J. C., and S. Pinto. “A new genealogy of"intelligent rage," or other ways to think about white women in feminism.” Signs 46, no. 4 (June 1, 2021): 883–910. https://doi.org/10.1086/713298.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History.” Modern Language Quarterly 82, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 268–70. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-9010535.
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  - Nash, J. C. “A Response to SaraEllen Strongman’s “Feeling Black Feminism, Otherwise: a Review of Jennifer Nash’s Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019)”.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, January 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-021-09401-y.
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  - Nash, J. C. “On the beginning of the world: dominance feminism, afropessimism and the meanings of gender.” Feminist Theory, January 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001211034084.
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  - Nash, Jennifer. “Home is Where the Birth Is: Race, Risk, and Labor During COVID-19.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 32, no. 2 (2021): 103–32.
  - Nash, Jennifer. “Citational Desires: On Black Feminism's Institutional Longings.” Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism 48, no. 3 (2021): 76–91.
  - Nash, Marjan. “Black Lactation Aesthetics: Remaking the Natural in Lakisha Cohill's Photographs.” Feminist Studies 47, no. 1 (2021): 94–94. https://doi.org/10.15767/feministstudies.47.1.0094.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C., and Samantha Pinto. “Strange Intimacies.” Public Culture 32, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 491–512. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8358686.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Writing Black Beauty.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45, no. 1 (September 2019): 101–22. https://doi.org/10.1086/703497.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Pedagogies of Desire.” Differences 30, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 197–227. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-7481358.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Birthing Black Mothers: Birth Work and the Making of Black Maternal Political Subjects.” Wsq: Women’S Studies Quarterly 47, no. 3–4 (2019): 29–50. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2019.0054.
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  - Jennifer C. Nash, Jennifer C. “Feminist Credentials: Notes on the Politics of Women's Studies Graduate Certificates.” Feminist Studies 44, no. 2 (2018): 284–284. https://doi.org/10.15767/feministstudies.44.2.0284.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Intersectionality and Its Discontents.” American Quarterly 69, no. 1 (2017): 117–29. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2017.0006.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Unwidowing: Rachel Jeantel, Black Death, and the “Problem” of Black Intimacy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41, no. 4 (June 2016): 751–74. https://doi.org/10.1086/685114.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Feminist originalism: Intersectionality and the politics of reading.” Feminist Theory 17, no. 1 (April 2016): 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700115620864.
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  - Falcón, Sylvanna M., and Jennifer C. Nash. “Shifting analytics and linking theories: A conversation about the “meaning-making” of intersectionality and transnational feminism.” Women’S Studies International Forum 50 (May 2015): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2015.02.010.
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  - Nash, J. C. “Black Anality.” Glq: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 20, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 439–60. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2721366.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Institutionalizing the Margins.” Social Text 32, no. 1 (2014): 45–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2391333.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality.” Meridians 11, no. 2 (March 1, 2013): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.2.1.
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  - Nash, Jennifer C. “Strange Bedfellows.” Social Text 26, no. 4 (2008): 51–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2008-010.
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  - Nash, Jennifer. “Black Maternal Aesthetics.” Theory and Event: An Online Journal of Political Theory, n.d.
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- Book Sections
  - Nash, Jennifer. “Pleasurable Blackness.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  - Nash, Jennifer. “Theorizing Race, Theorizing Racism: New Directions in Interdisciplinary Scholarship.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory. Routledge, 2016.
  - Nash, Jennifer. “Desiring Desiree.” In Porno Chic and the Sex Wars American Sexual Representation in the 1970s, 2016.
- Journal Issues
  - Nash, Jennifer, and Emily Owens, eds. “"Institutional Feelings: Practicing Women’s Studies in the Corporate University".” Feminist Formations. Johns Hopkins University Press, n.d.
  - Nash, Jennifer, and Emily Owens, eds. “"Institutional Feelings: Practicing Women’s Studies in the Corporate University".” Feminist Formations. Johns Hopkins University Press, n.d.
  - Nash, Jennifer, and Samantha Pinto, eds. ““Teaching the Feminist ‘Classics’ Now".” Feminist Formations. Johns Hopkins University Press, n.d.
- Digital Publications
  - Nash, Jennifer. “Comadre.” Another Chicago Magazine, n.d.
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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- CULANTH 290: Current Issues in Anthropology 2022
- ECON 290: Selected Topics In Economics 2022
- GSF 290: Selected Topics in Women's Studies 2022
- GSF 494: Honors Independent Study 2022
- GSF 891: Independent Study 2022
- HISTORY 290: Special Topics in History 2022
- HOUSECS 59: House Course 2022
- PUBPOL 290: Selected Public Policy Topics 2022
- SOCIOL 290: Advanced Special Topics in Sociology 2022
- GSF 291: Independent Study 2021
- GSF 493: Honors Independent Study 2021
- GSF 701S: Foundations in Feminist Theory 2021
- GSF 960S: Interdisciplinary Debates (Topics) 2021
- HOUSECS 59: House Course 2021
- LIT 761S: Foundations in Feminist Theory 2021
- GSF 499S: Senior Seminar in Women's Studies 2020

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Education, Training, & Certifications

In the News

Awards & Honors

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Journal Issues

Digital Publications

Recent Courses