Tommy Conners

TOMMY CONNERS

tconners @ ufl . edu 
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Tommy Conners writes and teaches about race, queerness, and aesthetics in US law and Latinx literature. Tommy is an Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies in the Department of English at the University of Florida.

Tommy earned his PhD in Hispanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been Assistant Professor at Allegheny College and lecturer of History & Literature and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Harvard University. His current book, Colorblind Aesthetics, is under contract with NYU Press’s Sexual Culture Series. It reads Latinx literature to explore how social relations and definitions of personhood change when law renders race a mute point, as opposed to a moot point. He is co-editing Latinx Methods and the Politics of Praxis (under contract at Duke University Press) and working on a collaborative project about comparative race approaches to colorblindness.