Amber Jamilla Musser

Amber Jamilla Musser is Professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press 2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press 2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press 2024). Her collaborative projects include the co-edited journal issues “Care and Its Complexities” for signs and “Queer Form” for ASAP Journal, co-editing the series Elements in Feminism and Critical Theory for Cambridge University Press, co-editing Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, and co-hosting its accompanying Feminist Keywords Podcast. She was President of ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) from 2022–2023, when she co-chaired ASAP-14: Arts of Fugitivity in Seattle; and she is currently co-chairing ASAP-15: Not a Luxury in New York City in October 2024. She is also Co-Editor of Social Text.