Joseph M. Pierce is a 2024-25 Scholar in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and the Founding Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019) and Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair (Duke University Press, 2025), co-editor of Políticas del amor: Derechos sexuales y escrituras disidentes en el Cono Sur (Cuarto Propio, 2018) as well as the 2021 special issue of Gay and Lesbian Studies Quarterly, “Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable.” He has published work in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Critical Ethnic Studies,Latin American Research Review, and Art Journal, as well as in popular outlets such as Hyperallergic, TruthOut, and Indian Country Today. Along with S.J. Norman (Wiradjuri) he is co-curator of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Biografía en castellano
Joseph M. Pierce es uno de los investigadores en residencia por el año 2024-25 en el Museo de Arte Moderno (MoMA). Es profesor asociado en el Departamento de lenguas y literatura hispánicas además de servir como director inaugural de la iniciativa para los estudios indígenas y nativo americanos en Stony Brook University. Es autor de Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019) y Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair (Duke UP, 2025); co-editor de Políticas del amor: Derechos sexuales y escrituras disidentes en el Cono Sur(Cuarto Propio, 2018) además del número especial de la revista GLQ, “Queer/Cuir Américas: Traducción, decolonialidad y lo inconmensurable” (2021). Su trabajo ha sido publicado en Revista Hispánica Moderna, Critical Ethnic Studies, Latin American Research Review, además de Hyperallergic, TruthOut, Indian Country Today y Revista Terremoto. Junto con S.J. Norman (Wiradjuri) es co-curador de la serie de performance Knowledge of Wounds. Es ciudadano de la nación cherokee.
