Jodi Melamed

Jodi Melamed is associate professor of English and Africana studies at Marquette University. She is the author of Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and has published many articles and chapters in a wide array of journals and editions. She is a coeditor of a recent special volume of Social Text focused on “Economies of Dispossession.” Melamed is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including a Fulbright, a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship, and grants from the American Studies Association, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council.