Ricardo Montez received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a certificate in Culture and Media at NYU, 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. Montez examines Haring's collaboration with figures from black and Latino "street" culture, focusing on the production and consumption of the artist's work in relation to his cross-racial queer desire. 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 (2001-2005), and organized a recent conference on "Latina/o Sexualities" at NYU that brought together scholars working at the intersections of gender and sexuality studies and Latino studies. As affiliated faculty of the Program in American Studies at Princeton, Montez is teaching the core course for students wishing to pursue a certificate in that program.  He has also taught a  Freshman seminar on Latino Popular Culture and will be offering a course on Contemporary Queer Literature in the spring.  During his tenure at the Society of Fellows he will work on revising his dissertation for book publication.