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/