Amber Musser

Amber Jamilla Musser is an English professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. ^[1] Previously, Musser was Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. ^[2]

Early life and education

From the University of Oxford, Musser has a MSt in Women's Studies and her Ph.D. from Harvard University is in the History of Science. She has had fellowships at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University and at the New York University Draper Program in Gender Studies. ^[1]

Career

Musser joined the CUNY staff in the fall semester of 2021. ^[3] Musser was also an American Studies professor at George Washington University.

In the Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she started in 2013, Musser taught in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, the Performing Arts Department and the American Cultural Studies Program. ^[4]

Publications

• monograph Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014)
• Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance ^[5]
• Tear and the Politics of Brown Feelings ^[6]

References

1. "AMBER MUSSER". CUNY Graduatie Center. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
2. "Amber Jamilla Musser". SUNY Cortland. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
3. "Let Your Mind Wander in Other Spaces: Amber Musser on Black Feminisms, the Idea of the Flesh, and the Intellectual Rewards of 'Quirky Tangents'". CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
4. "Amber Musser - Grantees - Arts Writers Grant". Art Writers. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
5. "Sensual Excess Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance". NYU Press. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
6. Musser, Amber (30 September 2021). "Tear and the Politics of Brown Feelings". ASAP Journal. Retrieved 30 October 2022.