Stanford Humanities Center
Jordache A. Ellapen is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and visual artist who works at the intersections of visual culture studies, race and racial formations, and gender, sexuality, and queer studies. He is the co-editor of the book we remember differently: Race, Memory, Imagination (UNISA Press, 2012). He is currently completing a manuscript titled Against Afronormativity: Queering Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa, which examines the shifting nature of blackness in post-apartheid South Africa through the perspective of black and brown women and queer artists.
