Dr. Noémie Ndiaye

Biography

Noémie Ndiaye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago. She earned her PhD from Columbia University in 2017. Her research interests encompass Renaissance literature, critical race studies, performance studies, visual culture, comparative literature, translation, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality research. Through her work, she explores the intricate relationship between theater as a medium and social, political, and cultural struggles throughout early modernity. Her monograph, 'Scripts Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture Making Race', published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2022, examines how performance culture influenced the construction of racial categories in early modern Western Europe. The book has garnered several accolades, including the 2023 Bevington Award. Currently, she is working on a monograph titled 'Whiteness Early Modern Playbooks Racial Triangulation', which explores representational dynamics within racial contexts in early modern European theatre. Additionally, she co-edited the volume 'RaceB4Race®: Seeing Race Race: Visual Culture Racial Matrix Pre-modern World', released in 2023. She is also involved in visual culture initiatives and enjoys collaborating with artists and theatre makers. Recently, she has been teaching courses on women playwrights of the Renaissance and Molière.

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