Jennifer Nash is an Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Her research centers on black feminist theories; black sexual politics; race, gender, and law; race, gender, and visual culture; and women's/gender/sexuality studies' institutional histories and politics. She is the author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, ReadingPornography (Duke University Press, 2014), which was awarded the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. She received her Ph.D. in African American Studies from Harvard, her JD from Harvard Law School, and her BA from Harvard College in Women's Studies.

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