Princeton University

Ricardo Montez received his Ph.D. in performance studies with a certificate in culture and media from New York University, where he taught most recently in the Latino studies program as a postdoctoral faculty fellow. His interdisciplinary dissertation, “Riding/Writing the Line: Keith Haring, Race, and the Performance of Desire,” engages racial and ethnic politics in the work of the Pop artist Keith Haring, generating new ways of thinking about race, sexuality, and ethnicity through a performance studies lens. His publications and presentations include studies of Andy Warhol’s portraits of Keith Haring, the Paradise Garage, and the Whitney Museum's Haring Retrospective. He has taught courses in performance studies, LGBT studies, and expository writing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at a number of institutions and programs in New York. Montez also served as managing editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2001–05), and organized a recent conference on “Latina/o Sexualities” at New York University that brought together scholars working at the intersections of gender and sexuality studies, and Latino studies.