Jordan Victorian

Graduate Student
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victorian@ucsb.edu

Website: 

https://ucsb.academia.edu/jmvictorian

Specialization: 

 

Research interests include:

  • black feminist and queer studies

  • sexuality and gender

  • queer and LGBTQ studies

  • cultural criticism

  • critical theories

 

 

Education: 

MA in Feminist Studies (UCSB, 2019)
BA in American Culture Studies & Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Washington University in St. Louis, 2017)

 

Bio: 

jordan victorian is a writer and educator interested in black, queer, feminist, cultural criticism. They study as a doctoral candidate in feminist studies at UCSB, where they earned an MA in 2019, and completed a BA in culture, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. For their dissertation, victorian is exploring black nonmonogamy as a lens for transformative study, politics, and cultures of sexuality. Their teaching experience includes topics of sexuality, black and women of color feminisms, and queer studies.

Publications: 

Article:
 
(Forthcoming 2022) “Rendering Black Queer Operations: Technologies for Knowing, Being, and Living in Dirty Computer.” Special issue on “Queer Black Subjectivity,” Women, Gender, and Families of Color.
 

Book review:

(2018) "Kinking Race Pleasures,” review of The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography by Ariane Cruz, in GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 24(4), 560-562.

Zines

(Forthcoming 2022) Co-editor and contributor, touching:blackstudy

(2019) Co-editor and contributor, becoming undisciplined: a zine. UC Santa Barbara: Department of Feminist Studies.