Research interests:
Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Queer Temporalities, Historicizing Queerness
Biography: Jodi Davis is a lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies program at Cal State Fullerton and affiliated faculty for the Queer Studies Minor. She received her M.A. from Claremont Graduate University in Applied Women's Studies and her B.A. in Women's Studies from Cal State Fullerton. She is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She was a contributor to the three-volume encyclopedia set "LGBTQ America Today" and recently published an article titled "It's Not About the Coffee: Queer Temporalities at a Community Coffeehouse." Her dissertation is focused on imagining the ways in which we understand and form queer communities and neighborhoods as well as the ways in which they are effected by the trauma of the past. Her research looks to challenge recuperative models of Gay and Lesbian histories in the United States and instead offers a queer temporal shift that highlights the presence of the past within the contemporary moment in the "gay ghetto" of Long Beach, California.