Jocelyn E. Marshall

Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall is faculty in the Departments of Visual & Media Arts and Writing, Literature, & Publishing at Emerson College. They are currently completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship supported by the American Association of University Women, and she previously was a Dissertation Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. Their interdisciplinary projects focus on contemporary U.S.-based diasporic women and LGBTQ+ artists and writers, researching relationships between historical trauma and queer and feminist activism. Her work has been supported by the Mark Diamond Research Foundation, New York Public Library, and John Burton Harter Foundation, among others. Their research is featured in the Journal of American Culture, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Public Art Dialogue, Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics, and elsewhere. One of their current book projects, tentatively titled Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism, is under advance contract with the University of Illinois Press, and, in 2022, she co-edited a collection on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Classroom (Emerald Publishing).

Her service appointments and curatorial and editorial work center LGBTQ+ and BIPOC feminist contemporary art, film, new media, and performance, such as with the exhibitions Being In-Between | In-Between Being (UB Art Galleries, 2020-21) and Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 - Buffalo NY (multi-site, 2023). In Spring 2023, they edited a multimedia, multi-genre issue of Rutgers University’s feminist journal Rejoinder, themed “Textual-Sexual-Spiritual: Artistic Practice and Other Rituals as Queer Becoming and Beyond.” She presently Co-Chairs the Gender & Feminisms Caucus at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies and serves on the Editorial Board of Art Journal.