José Esteban Muñoz
José Esteban Muñoz (August 9, 1967 – December 3, 2013) was a
Cuban American academic in the fields of
performance studies,
visual culture,
queer theory,
cultural studies, and
critical theory. His first book, ''Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics'' (1999) examines the performance, activism, and survival of queer people of color through the optics of
performance studies. His second book, ''Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity'', was published by
NYU Press in 2009. Muñoz was Professor in, and former Chair of, the Department of Performance Studies at
New York University's
Tisch School of the Arts. Muñoz was the recipient of the
Duke Endowment Fellowship (1989) and the Penn State University Fellowship (1997). He was also affiliated with the
Modern Language Association,
American Studies Association, and the
College Art Association.
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