Hoad, Neville
Associate Professor

Education: Ph.D. Columbia University 1998
Office Location: PAR 215
Office Hours: Th 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Phone: (512) 471-8749
nhoad@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: Nineteenth-century British literature, Victorian anthropology and sexology, Darwin and social Darwinism, feminism in imperialism, colonial discourse studies, anglophone postcolonial literature and theory, South African literature, critical race studies, contemporary feminist theory in French and English, pyschoanalysis (particularly Freud and Klein), lesbian and gay studies, queer theory, history of sexuality, international human rights law pertaining to sexual orientation, development and globalization of theory.

Recent Publications: “Queer Theory Addiction.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 106, no. 3 (Summer 2007): 511-522.

African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

“Moving Intimacy: A mother called Yesterday, a child called Beauty and a father called John Khumalo.” In Sites of Production: History, Film and Cultural Citizenship, edited by Tina Mai Chen, David S. Churchill, and Thomas Lahusen. New York: Routledge, 2007, 99-112.

Sex and Politics in South Africa: Equality / Gay and Lesbian Movement / the Struggle. Co-edited with Graeme Reid and Karen Martin. Cape Town: Double Storey, 2005.

“Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS Blues: The Intellectual, the Archive and the Pandemic.” Public Culture 17, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 101-127.

“Welcome to our Hillbrow: An Elegy for African Cosmopolitanism.” In Urbanization and African Cultures, edited by Toyin Falola and Steve Salm. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005, 267-278.

“Homosexuality, Africa, Neoliberalism and the Anglican Church: The Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, 1998.” In Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age, edited by Brad Weiss. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2004, 54-79.

“Cosmetic Surgeons of the Social: Darwin, Freud, and Wells and the Limits of Sympathy on The Island of Dr. Moreau.” In Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion, edited by Lauren Berlant. Publication of the English Institute. New York: Routledge, 2004, 187-217.

“World Piece: What The Miss World Pageant Teaches about Globalization.” Cultural Critique 58 (Fall 2004): 78-115.

Awards and Honors: President’s Associates Teaching Award, 2007