Watufani Poe

Assistant Professor of Activist Media- Department of Communication

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty

Courses

Cross Cultural Analysis, Special Topics: Theorizing the Black Queer Americas

Research

Activist Media, Afro-Latin America, Black Feminist Ethnography, Gender and Sexuality, Black LGBTQ+ identity in Brazil

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Brown University, Africana Studies, Designated Emphasis in Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021
  • A.M., Brown University, Africana Studies, 2018
  • A.M., Brown University, History, 2018
  • B.A. Swarthmore College, Africana Studies, Latin American Studies (minor), 2013

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 2022-2023
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Amherst College, 2021-2022

Distinctions

  • Center For Humanistic Inquiry Fellow at Amherst College, 2021-2022
  • US Fulbright Program Fellow (Brazil), 2018-2019
  • Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellow, 2019
  • Tinker Research Grantee (Brazil), 2016-2017

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Dominican Republic

Selected Publications

  • 2023. “Representação vs. Representatividade: Analyzing Black LGBTQ+ Identity Politics in Brazil,” Journal of Women Gender and Families of Color (Final Revisions Accepted 10/11/2022, Forthcoming Fall 2023)
  • 2023. “Black Gay Worldmaking of the Global 1980s: Brazil and the United States” Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura. https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/rebeh/article/view/14682/12262
  • 2023. “Homens Negros Amando Homens Negros: Militância Gay Negra dos Anos 1980 no Brasil e nos EUA” Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura. https://periodicoscientificos.ufmt.br/ojs/index.php/rebeh/article/view/14682/12261
  • 2023. “Black Brazilian Media Producers and the Nomination of Marte Um,” Black Perspectives. https://www.aaihs.org/black-brazilian-media-producers-and-the-nomination-of-marte-um/