Current Responsibilities

Associate Professor – Women’s Studies

Affiliated Faculty – English and Geography & Regional Development

Chair – Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee

Executive Committee – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

CV Highlights

Ph.D. – Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 1995

Rockefeller Fellow – Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, 1997-98

Bunting Fellow – Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 1999-2000

Director – Sex, Race and Globalization Rockefeller Humanities Residency Program, 2000-2004.

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Research and Teaching Interests

Joseph uses the tools of cultural studies – theory, ethnography, and discourse analysis – to examine contemporary economic processes and social formations. Her book, Against the Romance of Community, describes the mutually constitutive relationship between community and capitalism. She is currently working on A Debt to Society, which explores the relationship between financial and juridical accounting. She teaches Marxist, poststructuralist, feminist and queer theory, cultural studies methods, and introductory courses in Women's Studies and LGBT Studies.