Isaac Jean-Francois

Black studies, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Queer theory, and Sound Studies

B.A. from Columbia University in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cum Laude

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Isaac Jean-François is a doctoral candidate in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University. His research spans black studies, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and musicology. His scholarship has appeared in Current Musicology and will be published in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly in spring 2025. 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 book project under contract with MIT Press.

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.

Jean-François earned his B.A. from Columbia University in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cum Laude. He holds 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.

Department:

Combined Ph.D. with American Studies