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Neville Hoad is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, affiliated with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, the Center for African and African American Studies, and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1998 and has been a pivotal figure in queer theory, African literature, and human rights discourse.
- Email: nhoad@mail.utexas.edu
- Office: PAR 215
- Office Hours: TTh 12:30-1:30 PM
Research Interests: Neville Hoad's work spans Victorian feminism, psychoanalysis (Freud and Klein), contemporary feminist theory, queer theory, sexuality and gender in Southern Africa, and international human rights law. His courses, such as Victorian Literature and Human Rights: Law, Lit, Cult, reflect his interdisciplinary focus on gender, sexuality, and postcolonial critique.
Publication Trends: Hoad's scholarship interrogates the intersections of queer theory and African studies, with recurring themes in evolutionary narratives, gender variance, HIV/AIDS representation, and human rights activism. His work often engages with postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist critique, emphasizing Southern African contexts.
Current Projects: He is writing a book on literary and cultural representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, building on his seminal work African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization (2007) and co-edited volume Sex & Politics in South Africa (2005).
