Xavier Livermon
Areas of Interest
- Black Feminisms
- Black Queer and Black Trans Studies
- Black Cultural Studies
- African Genders and Sexualities
- Popular Music Studies
- Film Studies
Biography
Xavier Livermon is Associate Professor of WGSI at University of Toronto. He has published widely in the fields of African Diaspora Studies, African Popular Culture and African Gender and Sexuality Studies. His book, Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa (2020) discusses the rise of post-apartheid South African popular culture and its articulation with contemporary politics of race, gender, and sexuality and was a finalist for the African Studies Association Melville Herskovits Award. He is currently working on two projects, one examining intimacy and love among Black queer men in contemporary film and another that explores Black Queer Belonging in South Africa.
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. University of California, Berkeley
B.A. University of California, San Diego
Selected Works
Livermon, X. (2020). Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space & Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007357
Livermon, X. “On Decolonial Methods in Envisioning African Intersex” Feminist Formations V 36 N 2 pp 166-171. (Summer 2024). https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ff.2024.a939103.
Livermon, X. “Pivoting Toward Solidarity: Black Studies, Black feminism, and performance in geographical scholarship. Dialogues in Human Geography (July 25, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231189581
Livermon, X. “Inxeba: Rethinking Dichotomies of Black Queer Visibilities” Urban Forum 34, 213-222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-023-09486-y
Livermon, X. “Securing Pride: Sexuality, Security, and the Post-apartheid State.” Stability: International Journal of Security & Development 7(1), 2018: 1-14 DOI: 10.5334/sta.607
Honours and Awards
Associate Professor Experimental ($ 50,000), The Office of the Vice President for Research and the School for Design and Creative Technologies, The University of Texas at Austin
Humanities Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Fellow
Summer Research Assignment, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Research Scholar, Black Sexual Economies Project, Washington University Law School Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work and Social Capital
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses:
WGS160Y1Y – Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
WGS360H1S – Making Knowledge in a World that Matters
WGS435H1F / WGS1011HS – Black Queer Film
Graduate Courses:
WGS1011HS – Black Queer Film
WGS5001HS – Feminist Theories, Histories, and Movements II