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Chloe Diamond-Lenow Adjunct Professorial Lecturer Critical RGC Studies

Degrees
PhD in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara

MSc in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science

BA in the Study of Women and Gender from Smith College

Bio
Chloe (she/her) is an adjunct professorial lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research and teaching interests include feminist and queer theory, race and empire, cultural studies, postcolonial animal studies, transnational sexuality studies, and LGBTQ studies.

Her book project “Boundary Affects: Race, Sex, and Species in U.S. Empire,” analyzes the racialized borders of humanity and animality and frames of heteropatriarchal nationalisms in U.S. militarism during the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the “war on terror.” Her work has been published in The Journal of Intercultural Studies and Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The University of Minnesota Duluth before joining AU.
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