Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., American University 2015
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • OCT 4, 2022

    Department of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies

    Bold Thinking: Nikki Lane Brings Rap Into Gender Studies
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Lane, Nikki. The Black Queer Work of Ratchet Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
    • Lane, Nikki. The Black Queer Work of Ratchet. Springer International Publishing, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23319-8.
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  • Academic Articles

    • Lane, N. “Ratchet Black Lives Matter: Megan Thee Stallion, Intra-Racial Violence, and the Elusion of Grief.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 31, no. 2 (August 1, 2021): 293–97. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12323.
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    • Lane, Nikki. “Narratives of affect.” Journal of Language and Sexuality 7, no. 1 (February 22, 2018): 55–76. https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.17010.lan.
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    • Nikki Lane, ADAM D. “Bringing Flesh to Theory: Ethnography, Black Queer Theory, and Studying Black Sexualities.” Feminist Studies 42, no. 3 (2016): 632–632. https://doi.org/10.15767/feministstudies.42.3.0632.
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    • Lane, Nikki. “Black women queering the mic: Missy Elliott disturbing the boundaries of racialized sexuality and gender.” Journal of Homosexuality 58, no. 6–7 (July 2011): 775–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2011.581921.
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    • Lane, Nikki. “An open letter to the editors of the Journal of Language and Sexuality.” Journal of Language and Sexuality, n.d.
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  • Book Sections

    • Lane, Nikki. “All the Lesbians are White, All the Villages are Gay, but Some of Us are Brave: Intersectionality, Modernity, and Black Queer Women’s Scene Space in Washington, D.C.” In Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place, and Power., edited by Kath Browne and Eduarda Ferreira, 2015.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • GSF 370S: Queer Theory 2023
  • GSF 376S: Black Feminist Theory 2023
  • GSF 890S: Advanced Topics in Feminist Studies 2023
  • LIT 475S: Queer Theory 2023
  • PSY 232: Quad Course: The Art and Science of What “Works” In Life 2023
  • SXL 470S: Queer Theory 2023
  • AAAS 390S: Special Topics 2022
  • GSF 390S: Special Topics in Women's Studies 2022

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