McMillan, Uri

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McMillan, Uri
Assistant Professor
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Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 2009

Areas of Research/Interests

Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Visual Culture & Aesthetic Theory, Feminist Theory, Queer Studies, African-American Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Manuscripts

Embodied Avatars: The Art of Black Performance (In Progress)

Articles

"Mammy-Memory: Staging Joice Heth, or the Curious Phenomenon of the Ancient Negress,” Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Special Issue: Aging (forthcoming, winter 2012)

"Crimes of Performance," SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Special Issue: Race, Crime, and Capital. Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2011: 29-45.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10999949.2011.551476

Book Review, Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern by Jayna Brown,

Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Vol. 20, Issue 1, March 2010: 89-92.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07407701003589428

 

"Ellen Craft's Radical Techniques of Subversion," e-misferica: Performance and Politics in the Americas
Issue 5.2, Race and Its Others, 2008:

http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/eng/publications/emisferica/5.2/index.html

 

"Remember the Future: Orlan, Michael Jackson, and Plastic Surgery as Performance of the Self,"Maroon: The Yale Journal of African-American Studies, Spring 2006: 87-105.


Essays in Museum Publications

 

"Relics of the Future: The Aesthetic Wanderings of Simone Leigh." Evidence of Accumulation (exhibition catalogue), New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2011: 6-8.

 

"Mickalene Thomas," Re: Collection: Selected Works from the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York: The Studio Museum of Harlem, 2010: 170.

 

"Simone Leigh," Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, New York: The Studio Museum of Harlem, Summer 2009: 49.

 

"Thierry Fontaine." Flow (exhibition catalogue) by Christine Y. Kim, et al. New York: The Studio Museum of Harlem, 2008: 48-49.


Courses Taught

 

Queer of Color Critique, University of California-Los Angeles, scheduled Spring 2012.
Contemporary African-American Literature, University of California-Los Angeles, Fall 2011.
Afro-futurism, University of California-Los Angeles, Spring 2011.
Black Popular Cultures, University of California-Los Angeles, Winter 2011.

Post-Stonewall GLBT Literature, University of California-Los Angeles,Winter 2011.

Introduction to Queer Studies, Lewis and Clark College, Spring 2010, Summer 2010.

The “Others:” Narratives of Racial Difference, Lewis and Clark College, Spring 2010.

Black and Latino/a Popular Cultures: From Drag Balls to Hip-Hop, Lewis and Clark College, Fall 2009.

Black and Latino Popular Culture and Performance, Yale University, Summer 2007.

World Performance, Teaching Fellow, Yale Univerity, Fall 2007.

U.S. Gay and Lesbian History, Teaching Fellow, Yale University, Fall 2006.

The Formation of Modern American Culture, 1919-2006, Teaching Fellow, Yale University, Spring 2006.