James McMaster is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies. He is currently working on a book project that puts the discourse of care theory into conversation with queer, feminist, and Asian Americanist critique and cultural production. His writing has appeared, or will soon, in the Journal of Asian American Studies, American Quarterly, TDR/The Drama Review, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory where he is also the co-editor of a special issue titled The Between: Couple Forms, Performing Together with Olivia Michiko Gagnon.

Current Occupation

Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

NYU Affiliations

TDR, Women & Performance, NYU Sanctuary, GSOC-UAW Local 2110

Why PS @ NYU?

I was first introduced to the field when I took an "Intro to Performance Studies" class in undergrad taught by the then-chair of my theatre department, an alumnus of this program. I learned then that my interest in aesthetic performance and my inextricability from sociopolitical urgencies could be held together in radical and nourishing ways. It was to that end that I came to NYU PS, in particular, in search of a politicized bastion of minoritarian thought. I felt and still feel that this department—populated as it is with faculty and students of color, queer comrades, femme and feminist leaders, unparalleled thinkers of minoritarian art and politics—was the only place at which I would be able to become who I needed to be in order to live on in the world, in order to change it. I feel very fortunate to be here.