Isaac Jean-Francois
Isaac Alexandre Jean-François is a doctoral candidate in Black Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Their research spans black studies, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and musicology. Their scholarship has appeared in Current Musicology, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and, co-authored with Jessie Cox, liquid blackness. Building on a seminar they co-taught on bodies, sensations, and the aesthetics of difference, Jean-François and medieval art historian Professor Jacqueline Jung are co-authoring a manuscript under contract with MIT Press, Black/Medieval (working title).
Jean-François is committed to the intersection between academia and advocacy work and serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Stonewall Community Foundation based in New York City and The Elm City Consort in New Haven.
Jean-François earned their B.A. from Columbia University in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cum Laude. They hold a Certificate of Study from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and completed the Scholar’s Program at The Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis in New Haven.
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