School of Arts and Sciences
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Kareem Khubchandani

Kareem Khubchandani

Associate Professor, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Associate Professor, Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora
Interim Chair, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Kareem Khubchandani

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Research/Areas of Interest

Performance Studies; queer studies; South Asian studies

Education

  • PhD, Performance Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, 2014
  • MA, Performance Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, 2009
  • BA, Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University, Hamilton, United States, 2004

Biography

Kareem Khubchandani (any pronouns) is Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020), which received the 2019 CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies Fellowship award, the 2021 Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno best book award, and the 2021 ATHE Outstanding Book Award. Kareem is co-editor of Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press) and curator of www.criticalauntystudies.com. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and previously served as Embrey Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.