Emily R. Bock
Emily R. Bock
Assistant Professor of American Studies
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Emily R. Bock is a cultural anthropologist whose research and teaching are situated at the intersection of black studies, queer theory, performance studies, ethnography, social theory, and ethics. Her forthcoming book, Ordinary Queens: Queer Phantasies and Performances of the Good Life, is an ethnography of the contemporary ballroom scene—an underground, predominantly black, queer performance community. In considering how ballroom members strive to imagine and secure existence beyond mere survival within an ordinary haunted by anti-black, anti-queer, and anti-trans violences, the book tracks the many creative practices for living that emerge from experiments with and against normative US values.
Bock received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago where she later held a joint appointment in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences. Her writing can be found or is forthcoming in InVisible Culture, Black Perspectives, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. She currently serves as the editor director of Books in Brief at GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Prior to graduate school, Bock was a professional dancer and choreographer in New York City.
Bock received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago where she later held a joint appointment in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences. Her writing can be found or is forthcoming in InVisible Culture, Black Perspectives, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. She currently serves as the editor director of Books in Brief at GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Prior to graduate school, Bock was a professional dancer and choreographer in New York City.
AMST 6190 - "Welcome to The Good Life"
AMST 3901- Examining America
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago
B.A., Anthropology & Dance, Barnard College