Name: Jessica Pabón
Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Expertise Keywords: Black Studies, cultural studies, Digital Humanities., Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Visual Art and Performance Studies
Available For: interviews, essays, speaking
Expertise: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY August 2014–Present Assistant Professor, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies • Coordinator of team-taught Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies four credit-GE course, which serves 210 students per year (3 sections in fall, 4 in spring). I teach one section per semester and as coordinator I oversee course content, syllabus, guest speaker schedule and any associated logistics. • Director of LGBTQIA+ Living-Learning Community—Rivera House—which serves approximately 30 residents per year. In this role I: teach the one-credit course in fall and spring; oversee a seven-person steering committee of faculty and staff; supervise one intern; mentor all residents; direct program admissions (applications, placements, and removals); write and revise program manual; manage grant writing and reporting (secured $9,000 grant for AY 2017-2018); organize or oversee all programming for the academic calendar year (guest speakers, field trips, community building forums); represent the program at open house, accepted students day, and orientations; liaise with administrators in Student Affairs and Academic Affairs; manage social media; and manage interpersonal difficulties within the community. Courses: Feminist Theory, Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Latina Feminisms, Performing Feminism, Gender and Sexuality in Hip Hop (Online Hybrid), and Feminist Art and Subculture
Currrent Research: Gender and Sexuality Studies, Visual Art and Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies, Black Studies, Digital Humanities.
Contact Information
E-mail Address: pabonj@newpaltz.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www.jessicapabon.com
Education
| Colleges/ Universities Attended |
Dates Attended |
Degree Conferred |
Year Conferred |
Major Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | Phd | 2013 | Performance Studies | |
| University of Arizona | MA | 2004 | Women’s Studies | |
| University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | BFA | 2001 | Sculpture/3D Studies |
Awards/Grants/Honors
Faculty Research Award 2018
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, SUNY New Paltz
Award of $470 to employ an undergraduate research assistant in spring semester.
Performance Studies International Travel Grant 2017
Award of $1000 for travel to Psi23 in Hamburg, Germany.
Major Discretionary Salary Award for Professional Achievement 2016
SUNY New Paltz
Award of $1100 for professional achievement.
Summer Undergraduate Research Award, “Locating Latina Feminisms” 2016
Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities, SUNY New Paltz
Award of $1200 to facilitate summer research project with an undergraduate student.
Individual Development Award 2015
United University Professions
Award of $750 given for research activities.
American Dissertation Fellowship 2012–2013
American Association of University Women
Fellowship of $20,000 awarded for full-time study to complete dissertations.
Other professional activities
Keynote Address, “Painting Like a Grrl: The Aesthetics and Politics of International All-Grrl Graffiti Jams,” Wall/Therapy Conference, The Little Theatre, Rochester, NY, July 2017.
Invited Lectures
“‘I am not a Feminist. I am a Graffitera:’ Performing Feminist Community without Feminist Identity,” Engaged Liberal Arts and Science Series, co-sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Historical Studies Program Bard College, March 2017.
“‘At One Point We All Rebelled’: Hip Hop Graffiti Grrlz and the Performance of Feminist Masculinity,” Agora Colloquium Series on “Hemispheric Conversations: Urban Art Program,” co-sponsored by the Department of Communication, Cultural Studies, and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, March 2017.
“All-Grrl Jams: Transforming Precarious Belonging Through Collective Performance,” Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, October 2015.
“Gender, Street Art, and Transnational Feminist Movement,” School of Oriental and African Studies Lecture Series, University of London, March 2015.
“Gender Difference in Graffiti Subculture,” Hip Hop Scholar-Artist Series, Davidson College, NC, October 2012.
“Feminism on the Wall/Thriving in the Space Between.” TEDxWomen, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., December 2012.
Curatorial Experience
The Art of Pau, Without Limits, SUNY New Paltz, NY. 2016
Curator and Art Consultant, bOb Gallery & bar, Manhattan, NY. 2012–2014
My Graffiti Pony Jam, Boone Ave. Wall, Bronx, NY. 2013
Summer BBQ Graffiti Jam, Tuff City, Bronx, NY. 2012
Curator, Girls Unchained, ACCESS Tucson, Tucson, AZ. 2004
Unruly: A Tangle of Feminist Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ. 2002
Curator, Gender Agenda, UMASS Dartmouth Gallery, Dartmouth, MA. 2000
Professional Service
Speaker Series Organizer
Whose Free Speech?, SUNY New Paltz, Spring 2018
Board Member
Diversity & Inclusion Council, SUNY New Paltz. 2017–2018
Committee Chair
Curriculum Subcommittee, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. 2017
Board Member
Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Advisory Board, SUNY New Paltz. 2017
Founder/Organizer
Women of Color Faculty and Staff Network, SUNY New Paltz. 2016–Present
Board Member
DASHlab (Digital Arts, Sciences, and Humanities), SUNY New Paltz. 2015–2018
Member
Women’s Rights and Concerns Committee, United University Professions. 2015–Present
Peer-Reviewed Articles for:
• Women’s Studies Quarterly
• National Political Science Review
Community Service
Founder and Organizer 2017–Present
Feminists for Puerto Rico
US–Brazil Relations Director 2010–2012
Rede Nami, Feminist Urban Artist Collective
Organizational Memberships
American Association of University Women
• Panelist, Career Development Grants, 2013–2016
American Studies Association
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Cultural Studies Association
Latin American Studies Association
National Women Studies Association
• Co-Chair, Arts and Performance Studies Interest Group, 2015–2018
Performance Studies international
Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Puerto Rican Studies Association
Publications
Publications
Books
Pabn-Coln, Jessica N. 2018. Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora. New York: New York University Press.
Journal Publications (Peer-Review)
Pabn-Coln, Jessica Nydia. 2017. “Writin’, Breakin’, Beatboxin’: Strategically Performing ‘Women’ in Hip-Hop.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 43 (1): 175–200.
Pabn-Coln, Jessica N. 2017. “Performing Queer Mam on Social Media: Gender-Fluid Parenting as a Practice of Decolonisation.” Performance Research 22 (4): 71–74.
Pabn, Jessica N., and Shant Paradigm Smalls. 2014. “Critical Intimacies: Hip Hop as Queer Feminist Pedagogy.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 24 (1): 1–7.
Pabn, Jessica N. 2014. “Interview with AbbyTC5: A Pioneering ‘HomeGirl’ in Hip Hop Herstory.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop, 24 (1): 8–14.
Pabn, Jessica N. 2013. “Shifting Aesthetics: The Stick Up Girlz Perform Crew in a Virtual World.” Edited by John Lennon and Matthew Burns. Rhizomes, no. 25.
Journal Publication
Pabn, Jessica N. 2013. “Be About It: Graffiteras Performing Feminist Community.” TDR: the journal of performance studies 57 (3): 88–116.
Reprinted 2014: Gender and Sexuality: A Batch fromTDR, MIT Press Batches for Kindle.
Book Chapters
Pabn-Coln, Jessica N. “Yo Soy Boricua Feminista, Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!: Notes from a DiaspoRican on Performing Outsider Identity,” Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity, Eds. Grisel Y. Acosta and Roberta Hurtado, forthcoming Routledge.
Pabn, Jessica N. 2016. “Ways of Being Seen: Gender and the Writing on the Wall.” In Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art, edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross, 78–91. Routledge International Handbooks. London; New York: Routledge.
Pabn, Jessica N. 2016. “Daring to Be ‘Mujeres Libres, Lindas, Locas’: An Interview with the Ladies Destroying Crew of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.” In La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades, edited by Melissa Castillo-Garsow, 203–13. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
Pabn, Jessica N 2016. “No Somos ‘Mariposas,’ Somos ‘MariPUSSY’: An Interview with Graffiti Art Activist Miss163 Aka Sharon Lee De La Cruz.” In Identity & Anonymity - An Artful Anthology, edited by Jonathan Talbot, Leslie Fandrich, and Steven M. Specht, 112–19. Mizzentop Publishing.
Book Reviews
Pabn, Jessica N. 2013. “Plays from the Boom Box Galaxy: Theater from the Hip-Hop Generation by Kim Euell and Robert Alexander,” and “Say Word!: Voices from Hip Hop Theater by Daniel Banks,” TDR: the journal of performance studies (T217).
Pabn, Jessica N. 2012. “Returning to What We Know: Nicole Fleetwood’s Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness,” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory (Volume 22:2-3).
