Jennifer Row is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Minnesota. A comparatist and queer theorist by training, she received her PhD from Cornell University. Her research and teaching interests include early modern theater, dance and performance studies, queer theory, the history of sexuality, disability studies and affect theory. Her book project, Queer Velocities: Time, Sex and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage, (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press), examines new affects and queer desires wrought by the staging of temporal intensities (slownesses and speeds) and the impact of such queer affects on an emerging biopolitics. Her second book project, The Body Perfect: the Aesthetics of Ableism in the Early Francophone World, looks at the poetics and politics of crafting an idealized "capable" body through aesthetic practices (from dance to fairy tales), and how these aesthetic techniques of crafting a perfected body challenge the stories we tell about early modern race and gender as well as enlarge the scale of inquiry of disability theory today. She has previously taught at Boston University, in France at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV), and at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. In 2016-2017 she was a Solmsen Fellow in pre-1700 European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has also held a visiting fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota and organized a “Premodern Temporalities” research group with the UMN Mellon Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World. She is a proud alumna of the Andover Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, a program that addresses diversity in the teaching profession. She serves on the executive committee of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth Century Studies.
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