Title
Associate Professor

Department
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies


Faculty URL
https://tdps.berkeley.edu/people/roshanak-kheshti

Email
rkheshti@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis

Research Description
Roshanak Kheshti?is an anthropologist, feminist, queer and race theorist, born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work sits at the intersection of sound, the senses, film and performance studies with an emphasis on diaspora and psychoanalysis. She is the author of?Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music?(NYU Press, 2015) and?Switched-on Bach?(Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3, 2019). She is currently completing her third book, tentatively titled “We See with the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Synesthetic Hermeneutics”. She has previously published in the?Radical History Review,?American Quarterly,?Current Musicology, Feminist Media Histories, Hypatia, Feminist Studies, GLQ, Theater Survey, and?Sounding Out!