Associate Professor, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and the Department of Art History and Communications Studies
Arts W-295
(514)-398-6411
Bobby Benedicto is jointly appointed in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, where he convenes the聽聽working group. He is currently completing his second monograph,听Fatal Sex: Queer of Color Negativity聽and the Erotics of Death, under contract with Duke University Press, and has begun work on a new project, The Aesthetics of Chemsex, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He is the author of聽Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene聽(University of Minnesota Press, 2014), which received an honorable mention for the Ruth Benedict Prize in queer anthropology and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies. His research has also been supported by the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et culture (FRQSC), the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His recent writing has appeared in聽Postmodern Culture,听differences,听Society & Space, and聽GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
Graduate Supervision
I welcome prospective graduate students who wish to work on projects relating to death and sexuality, psychoanalysis and critical theory, film and visual culture, and other related topics.
Recent Publications
聽GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, forum 鈥淓mbodied Apocalypses鈥� 32:1 (2026): 18鈥�22.
聽Postmodern Culture, special issue 鈥淭he Afterlives of the Antisocial鈥� 33:2鈥�3 (2023).
聽differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, special issue on Leo Bersani 34:1 (2023): 95鈥�103.