Debarati Biswas

Debarati Biswas (she/her) is an assistant professor of African American studies and coordinator of the Black Visual Cultures minor at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. Her teaching and research interests include contemporary Black and U.S. ethnic literatures, queer theory, radical Black feminism, climate fictions, and decolonial thought. Biswas is currently working on her first book monograph about the affective and embodied dimensions of Blackness and queerness in carceral spaces—prisons, inner cities, and single-room-occupancy hotels—in African American men’s literature. She serves on the editorial board of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly and is the cochair of the board of directors at CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies. Her writing appears in Social Text, WSQ, Public Books, and Teen Vogue. Biswas has also coproduced an award-winning docu-fictional webseries, Three Trembling Cities, on immigrants of color in NYC.