Shoniqua Roach

Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

shoniquaroach@brandeis.edu
781-736-8564
Mandel Center for the Humanities, 206

Departments/Programs

African and African American Studies
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Degrees

Northwestern University, Ph.D.
University of Florida, M.A.
Pennsylvania State University, B.A.

Expertise

Black Feminism
Black Studies
Feminist Theory
Queer Theory
Performance Studies
African American Literature & Culture
Visual Culture

Profile

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Shoniqua Roach is assistant professor of African and African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. Her research and teaching center on Black Feminist Theory, Queer/Sexuality Studies, and Black popular and quotidian performance. Her peer-reviewed work appears or is forthcoming in Feminist Theory, The Black Scholar, Signs: journal of women in culture and society, differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, Feminist Formations, Journal of American Culture, antipode: a radical journal of geography, and Feminist Studies. Roach is editor of “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women In the Middle West: A Commemoration,” a Signs: journal of women in culture and society symposium that commemorates Darlene Clark Hine’s 1989 essay "Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women." She is co-editor (with Samantha Pinto) of a special issue of The Black Scholar on "Black Privacy."

Roach is currently at work on her book manuscript, Black Dwelling: Home-Making and Erotic Freedom, an intellectual and cultural history of the ways in which Black homes have been tragic sites of state invasion, as well as paradigmatic entry-points for Black women artists, activists, and intellectuals to imagine, rehearse, and enact Black erotic freedom. Her research has been supported by an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship and the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She sits on the editorial board of Signs: a journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Courses Taught

AAAS/WGS	125a	Intellectual History of Black Women
AAAS/WGS	136a	Black Feminist Thought
AAAS/WGS	149a	Black Privacy
AAAS/WGS	152b	Beyoncé and Beyond: The Politics of Black Popular Music

Awards and Honors

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship (2021 - 2022)

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021 - 2022)

Mandel Faculty Grant in the Humanities (2021)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund Award for Faculty Research (2021)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund Award for Faculty Research (2020)

Scholarship

Roach, Shoniqua. "Erotic Lessons I Learned From My Mother (And Other Women Who Nourished Me)." Feminist Studies (2021). (forthcoming)

Roach, Shoniqua. "Feel Free, or, an Ode to Black Mothers in Three Parts." Play-White by Bianca Baldi. Ed. Bianca Baldi. Berlin: K. Verlag/Anna-Sophie Springer, 2021 (forthcoming)

Roach, Shoniqua (with Samantha Pinto), ed. Black Privacy. The Black Scholar, 51.1 2021.

Roach, Shoniqua (with Sarah Haley, Emily Owens & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). "Confinement, Interiority, Black Feminist Study: A Forum on Davis’s “Reflections” at 50." The Black Scholar 51.1. (2021): 3-19.

Roach, Shoniqua, ed. Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women: A Commemoration. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 45.3 2020.

Roach, Shoniqua. "Homeplace: A Site of Resistance, Revisited." Antipode Online Conjunctural Insurrections Series. July (2020): <https://antipodeonline.org/2020/07/10/homeplace/>.

Roach, Shoniqua. "Introduction: Returning to Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women--A Black Feminist Forum on the Culture of Dissemblance." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45. 3 (2020): 515-519.

Roach, Shoniqua. "On the Uses of Black Feminism: Notes on Black Feminism as Sexuality Study." Feminist Formations 32. 1 (2020): 180-188.

Roach, Shoniqua. "Black Respectable Currency: Reading Black Feminism and Sexuality in Contemporary Performance." Journal of American Culture 42. 1 (2019): 10-20.

Roach, Shoniqua. "Black Sex in the Quiet." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 30. 1 (2019): 126-147.

Roach, Shoniqua. "Book Review of Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life." by Terrion Williamson. The Black Scholar vol. 49.2 2019: 75-78.

Roach, Shoniqua. "Unpacking Pariah: Maternal Figuration, Erotic Articulation, and the Black Queer Liberation Plot." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45. 1 (2019): 201-225.

Roach, Shoniqua. "Black Pussy Power: Performing Acts of Black Eroticism in Pam Grier's Blaxploitation Films." Feminist Theory 19. 1 (2018): 7-22.