Fatima El-Tayeb

Fatima El-Tayeb serves as Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, having previously held faculty positions in Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego while directing its Critical Gender Studies program.

Her academic credentials include:

• MA in American Studies and Modern European History from the University of Hamburg, Germany
• PhD in History from the University of Hamburg, Germany

Her research critically examines structural racism in "colorblind" European contexts through intersectional lenses, prioritizing:

• Black European communities and diaspora resistance strategies
• Queer of color critiques of nationalism and citizenship
• Decolonial approaches to visual culture and technology
• Transnational feminist analyses of migration and religion

Central to her work is documenting how racialized communities politicize culture to challenge systemic oppression.

El-Tayeb has authored three scholarly books: "Schwarze Deutsche. 'Rasse' und nationale Identität 1890 – 1933" (2001), "European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe" (2011), and "Undeutsch. Die Konstruktion des Anderen in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft" (2016). She co-created the Black lesbian film "Alles wird gut/Everything Will be Fine" (1997) and actively participates in Black feminist and queer of color advocacy networks across Europe and the United States.