- Jonathan David Katz
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queer studies professor. For the technology writer, seeJon Katz . For the American actor, seeJonathan Katz . For the historian, seeJonathan Ned Katz ."Infobox Writer
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birthdate = 1958
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genre = queer studies, art history
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footnotes =Jonathan David Katz is the former executive coordinator of the
Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies atYale University . He is a former chair of the Department of Lesbian and Gay studies at theCity College of San Francisco , and was the first tenured faculty ingay andlesbian studies in theUnited States . Katz was an associate professor in the Art History Department at theState University of New York at Stony Brook , where he also taughtqueer studies . He received his Ph.D. fromNorthwestern University in 1996.Katz is the founder of the
Harvey Milk Institute , the largest queer studies institute in the world, and the Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association.Katz co-founded
Queer Nation San Francisco . He has made scholarly contributions to queer studies the focus of his professional career. He was the first artistic director of theNational Queer Art Festival in San Francisco and has published widely in the United States andEurope .His forthcoming book, "The Homosexualization of American Art:
Jasper Johns ,Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Closet", will be published by theUniversity of Chicago Press. An internationally recognized expert inqueer postwar American art, Katz has recently published "Jasper Johns' Alley Oop: On Comic Strips and Camouflage" in "Schwule Bildwelten im 20. Jahrhundert", edited byThomas Roeske , and "The Silent Camp: Queer Resistance and the Rise of Pop Art," in "Plop! Goes the World", edited bySerge Guilbaut .Other publications include:
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*"Re-viewing the Field: Queer Studies in Art History", "Art History", 1999
*"John Cage's Queer Silence or How to Avoid Making Matters Worse", "GLQ", Duke University Press, April, 1999. Reprinted in "Here Comes Everybody: The Music Poetry and Art of John Cage", ed. David Bernstein, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
*"Silent Politics and the Performativity of Nothingness," "Making a Scene", ed. Henry McCullen, Birmingham University Press, 1999
*"Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic", "Performing the Body/Performing the Text", eds. Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, New York: Routledge Press, 1999
*"Difference/Indifference: Musings on Duchamp and Cage", coauthored with Moira Roth, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998
*"Lovers and Divers: Picturing a Partnership in Rauschenberg and Johns", "Frauen/Kunst/Wissenschaft", Berlin, June 1998
*"Rauschenberg and the Guggenheim", "Out Magazine", April 1998
*"Rauschenberg's Honeymoon", "Art & Text", no. 16 (May-July), 1998External links
* [http://geography.berkeley.edu/ProjectsResources/CaliforniaThinkers/profiles/katz.html California Thinkers]
* [http://www.washblade.com/advertising/eTearsheets/pdf/04-16-2004/070.pdf 300 Years of Queer History at Yale (pdf)]
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