#  WGS Welcomes Kareem Khubchandani as F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Associate Professor 

 





July 22, 2025

 

 

Please join WGS in welcoming [Tufts Professor Kareem Khubchandani](https://tdps.tufts.edu/people/faculty/kareem-khubchandani) to Harvard! Professor Khubchandani is the 2025-2026 [F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Associate Professor in Studies of Gender and Sexuality](https://hgsc.sigs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=108).

During his year at Harvard, he will be teaching two courses:

- [Queer Ethnography](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/158115) -- fall semester, places still available
- [RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Power](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/160646) -- spring semester

Professor Khubchandani is Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of [*Decolonize Drag* ](https://orbooks.com/catalog/decolonize-drag/)(OR Books) and [*Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife*](https://press.umich.edu/Books/I/Ishtyle) (University of Michigan Press), 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.

His next book, [*Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties*](https://brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lessons-in-drag-a-queer-manual-for-academics-artists-and-aunties/) is forthcoming from Brandeis University Press in October 2025. Later this fall (date tba, he will be delivering the F.O. Matthiessen Lecture on his work for this book.

He is co-editor of [Queer Nightlife](https://press.umich.edu/Books/Q/Queer-Nightlife) (University of Michigan Press) and curator of [www.criticalauntystudies.com](https://www.criticalauntystudies.com). He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and previously served as [Embrey Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/cwgs/projects/embrey-foundation-initiative/) at the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

*The F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality was created thanks to a generous gift from members and supporters of Harvard’s LGBTQ+ alumni group, the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (now the* [*Harvard Gender & Sexuality Caucus*](https://hgsc.sigs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=108)*). The resulting endowment enables Harvard to invite eminent scholars studying issues related to sexual minorities -- that is, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people -- or to sexuality, to teach in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.*

*The Matthiessen Professorship is named after F. O. Matthiessen (1902–1950), founder of the field of American Studies and a distinguished gay Harvard professor. Matthiessen chaired the undergraduate program in History and Literature at Harvard and was the first senior tutor of Eliot House.*



 

 

 



 

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