Yetta Howard, PhD

Yetta Howard received her Ph.D. in English and Gender Studies from the University of Southern California in 2010. Her research and teaching focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American literary and cultural studies, with a specialization in queer studies, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist theories of race. The recipient of the 2010 – 2011 Heller-Bernard Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies from CLAGS at the CUNY Graduate Center, Howard has articles in or forthcoming in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, The Journal of Popular Culture, and is guest editing a special issue of JLS on the theme "Under Pressure." Howard is currently working on a book manuscript about the anti-aesthetics of sexuality and is affiliated faculty with SDSU’s LGBT Studies Program and Women’s Studies Department.