Department of Modern Culture and Media
Jordan Mulkey
Research Interests
20th-Century Black Expressive Cultures, Antebellum Sexual Cultures, Black Arts Movement, Performance Theory, AIDS Theatre, Queer Theory, Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, German Idealism and Romanticism, Aesthetic Philosophy
Year Entered
2022
Biography
Jordan Mulkey is a doctoral candidate in Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Previously, he was a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Critical Theory at Northwestern University, where he received his M.A. in African American Studies in 2022. In 2018, he was recognized as an “Intellectual of The Year” at Morehouse College, where he received his B.A. in English with honors the following year. He is currently at work on his dissertation, “Dispiriting the Dark: Eros and Ecstasy in Black Live Art after AIDS”, which examines queer post-soul responses to the power of erotic love in the spiritual arsenal of racial slavery.