Description: "This book delves into the lessons drag practice offers about academia-shaping approaches to research, teaching, and writing-while revealing how scholarship influences drag performances, and inspiring understanding of fashion, music, divas, and aunties"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Kareem Khubchandani is associate professor of theater, dance, and performance studies and associate professor of studies in race, colonialism, and diaspora at Tufts University. He is the author of Decolonize Drag and Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife and the coeditor of Queer Nightlife.
Review Quotes: "A rollicking ride through performance and gender studies theory, Lessons in Drag is like the most virtuosic of drag performances: both erudite and wildly entertaining. At this perilous historical moment when both the queer nightclub and the university classroom are under siege, Khubchandani insists on the necessity of thinking these sites together. He shows how each can inform the other in ways that are theoretically rich, joyous, and life-affirming."-- "Gayatri Gopinath, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures"