Marlon M. Bailey - on leave until Fall 2010
baileymm@indiana.edu

Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and AAADS
Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre and Drama

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
MA in African American Studies from UC-Berkeley,
MFA in Theatre Performance from West Virginia University,
BA (cum laude) in Theatre/Speech Education from Olivet College.

G102 – Sexual Politics
G206 – Gay Histories, Queer Cultures
G215 – Sex & Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective
G302 - Gender and Sexuality in Black Culture
G350 – Queer Theory
G701 - The Cultural Politics of HIV/AIDS
G704 – Cultural Politics of Sexuality in the 20th Century

Professor Bailey's research interests include: African Diaspora studies, queer diasporas, race, gender, and sexuality, queer theory, Black queer studies, theatre/performance studies, ethnography, and HIV/AIDS (cultural politics, research, and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Black communities).

Dr. Bailey earned his PhD in African Diaspora Studies with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality, in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.  Currently, Dr. Bailey is working on a book manuscript that expands his performance ethnographic study of Ballroom Culture, a Black and Latina/o queer culture in North America: Butch Queens up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, is under contract with the University of Michigan Press.

His most recent publications examine performance, HIV/AIDS prevention, and Ballroom Culture.  In addition to his current research, Dr. Bailey has published on Black queer performance and same-sex marriage.  He is also an accomplished professional actor, director, and performance artist. He has performed at professional theatres in Minneapolis, DC, Louisville, and Detroit.  His most recent performance was in "The Hard Evidence of Existence: a Black Gay Sex (Love) Show," at the Thick House in San Francisco, California.  Prior to joining the faculty at IU, Dr. Bailey was a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California-Berkeley from 2005-2007. 

Dr. Bailey's publications are:

• Arnold, E., & Bailey, M. M. (2009). "Constructing home and family: How the Ballroom community supports African American GLBTQ youth in the face of HIV/AIDS." Special Issue on LGBTQ people of color. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 21, 171-188;

• Bailey, M. M. (forthcoming 2010). "Rethinking the African Diaspora and HIV/AIDS prevention from the perspective of Ballroom culture." In P. C. Hintzen, J. M. Rahier, & F. Smith (Eds.) Global Circuits of Blackness: Race, space, citizenship, and modern subjectivities. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press;

• Bailey, M. M. (2009). “Performance as Intravention: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit.” Special Issue on Gender and Sexuality: Souls: a Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society,11:3,253 — 274;

• Butch/Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, The University of Michigan Press, (manuscript in progress).

Dr. Bailey is also on the Board of Directors of Brothers United, a Black gay HIV/AIDS prevention agency in Indianapolis, and is the Co-chairperson for the Black Gay Research Group www.bgrg-international.org.