Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Anne McClintock

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: London, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005
Anne McClintock is a writer, feminist scholar, and public intellectual who has published widely on issues of sexuality, race, imperialism, and nationalism; popular and visual culture, photography, advertising, and cultural theory. Transnational and interdisciplinary in character, her work explores the interrelations of gender, race, and class power within imperial modernity, spanning Victorian and contemporary Britain to contemporary South Africa, Ireland, and the United States. Since 2015, McClintock is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and also affiliated with the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Department of English at Princeton University. Previously, McClintock was the Simone de Beauvoir Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at UW–Madison where she taught from 1999 to 2015. Before UW-Madison, she taught at both Columbia University and New York University. McClintock's writings have been widely acclaimed and anthologized. She has received numerous awards, including two prestigious MacArthur-SSRC Fellowships and numerous creative writing fellowships, including at MacDowell, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA, and Dorland. Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Japanese, Taiwanese, and Madarin.

Studios

Banks

Anne McClintock worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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