Shaka McGlotten is Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Gender Studies at Purchase College–SUNY. An anthropologist and artist, they work at the intersection of Black study, queer and trans theory, and computational media, with a focus on messy networked intimacies and algorithmic hexes. They are the author of Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life and Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality, and co‑editor of Black Genders and Sexualities, Zombies and Sexuality, and Postdigital Intimacies. Their projects Ima Put a Computational Hex on You and Black Data have been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and Data & Society.
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Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Literature Fellow (2026). Forthcoming: “Ordinary Intimacies, Algorithmic Hex” in MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory.
Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures (2025) · Data & Society (2020–21) · Akademie Schloss Solitude (2017–18) · Andy Warhol Foundation (2017) · Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2014)