Current Responsibilities

Associate Professor – Gender and Women’s Studies

Affiliated Faculty – English Department and School of Geography and Development

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.

Chair – Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee 2007-2009

Distinguished Visiting Fellow – Queen Mary University of London, Spring 2010.

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Research and Teaching Interests

Joseph uses the tools of cultural studies to examine contemporary economic processes and social formations. Her book, Against the Romance of Community, describes the mutually constitutive relationship between community and capitalism. Her current work-in-progress, A Debt to Society, explores modes of accounting (financial, juridical, managerial and more) as performative attributions of credits and debts that sustain or transform social relations. She is also working on a related investigation of the constitution of gendered subjectivity through personal finance. She teaches Marxist, poststructuralist, feminist and queer theory, cultural studies methods, and introductory courses in Women's Studies and LGBT Studies.