Anne McClintock

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Anne McClintock

Anne McClintock is a Zimbabwean-South African writer, feminist scholar and public intellectual who has published widely on issues of sexuality, race, imperialism, and nationalism; popular and visual culture, photography, advertising and cultural theory. Transnational and interdisciplinary in character, her work explores the interrelations of gender, race, and class power within imperial modernity, spanning Victorian and contemporary Britain to contemporary South Africa, Ireland, and the United States. Since 2015, McClintock is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. As of 2022, she has held a joint with the Princeton Environmental Institute, and is affiliated with the Department of English and the Ephron Center for American Studies. [1]

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Previously, McClintock was the Simone de Beauvoir Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she taught from 1999 to 2015. [2] Before Wisconsin, she taught at both Columbia University and New York University. [3]

Early life and education

Anne McClintock was born to parents of Irish and Scottish descent in Harare, Zimbabwe. Her parents moved to South Africa, where McClintock grew up during the height of the anti-apartheid movement. McClintock attended the University of Cape Town where she earned her BA in Philosophy and English in 1976. She taught at the mixed-race Bonteheuwel High School during this time. In 1979, she received an M Phil in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. McClintock earned her PhD in English Literature at Columbia University in 1989.

Selected bibliography

Books

Chapters in books

Journal and magazine articles

References

  1. "Anne McClintock — Gender and Sexuality Studies". Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  2. "University of Wisconsin–Madison Faculty Bio". Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
  3. Coleman, William; Sajed, Alina (26 June 2013). Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization. Routledge. ISBN   9781136163944.

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