M. Jacqui Alexander
Women & Gender Studies
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Animated by anti-colonial, feminist, women of color and queer movements in different parts of the world, Jacqui Alexander’s scholarship has addressed the centrality of (hetero)sexuality to the project of nation building; the pedagogical importance of teaching for justice; the need for a critical interdisciplinarity; and the sacred dimensions of women’s experience. Her most recent publication, Pedagogies of the Sacred: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred, has garnered transnational attention.
Research Interest
African Diasporic Cosmologies, African Diasporic Spiritual Practices, Caribbean studies, Gender and the Sacred, Heterosexualization and State Formation, Transnational feminism
