About Me

Dr. Quinn

I’m a Ghanaian & Jewish American scholar who grew up in the U.S South. I am passionate about black art and film in Africa and the African diaspora.

I’m an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and in the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at University of Houston. I’m currently on research leave with a fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for 2022-23 and a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Award for 2023-24.

My research focuses on transnational feminist theory, visual culture, and mixed race identities in the African diaspora, particularly in the U.S. and Dominican Republic. I’m interested in women of color feminist theory and feminist organizing–what works, what doesn’t–across transnational social networks, both online and in face-to-face coalition building.

I teach race, gender and sexuality in courses on Caribbean culture, black girlhood, feminist theory, and globalization, and through contemporary black art and culture, and explore black women’s writings as theory. I’m committed to mentoring underrepresented scholars in the academy and I’m part of and work to sustain numerous academic networks that cultivate peer mentorship in the academy in an effort to make space for more underrepresented scholars.