Nat
Raha
Lecturer (Fine Art Critical Studies)
School of Fine Art
biography
Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar. Her current research focuses on transfeminism, practices and collectives of care and social reproduction, racial capitalism and decolonisation, across poetry, art, politics and hi(r)story. Her recent writing addresses politics, print cultures and poetics of LGBTQ, anti-colonial, feminist and Mad liberation movements in North America and Europe from the early 1970s onwards. She works broadly on sexuality and gender, critical theory and Marxism, contemporary poetry, poetics, and aesthetics, through creative and critical methods.
Nat is the co-author of Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (with Mijke van der Drift, 2024), and co-edited 'Imagining Queer Europe then and now', Third Text special issue (2021). She is the author of four books of poetry, including apparitions (nines) (2024) and of sirens, body & faultlines (2018). Her critical writing has appeared in Social Text, South Atlantic Quarterly, TSQ and more.
Research interests
transfeminism, LGBTQ+ activism, decolonial aesthesis, queer aesthetics, trans aesthetics, feminist curatorial practice, disability aesthetics, sound art, experimental writing, print cultures, queer theory, feminism, Mad studies, performance, 20th Century Poetry, contemporary literature, cross-genre practices,
PGR supervision interests
I am interested in supervising doctoral researchers studying in the fields of queer, trans, decolonial and anti-racist practices across art, aesthetics, writing and culture more broadly.
Current PGR students
Brooke Hailey Hoffert, 'Temporal Transitions: Trans temporality explored through contemporary art and the curatorial'