BIO 

Dr. Chandra Frank is a feminist queer researcher and independent curator. She is currently Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, and the 2024-2027 Taft Professor of the Public Humanities. Dr. Frank’s interdisciplinary creative research focuses on feminist and queer of movement work, possibilities of dissent, and the ways in which race and the environment work as terrains of power. She explores critical walking methodologies, and multi-modal methodologies related to art, ecology and public histories.

She is completing her first monograph in progress, Tidal Politics: Feminist Queer Diaspora & Refusal in the Netherlands, which charts the creative and strategic interruption of feminist queer movement work in the 1980s alongside the literal and figurative sinking landscape and racial climate of the Netherlands.

Her curatorial practice explores the politics of care, experimental forms of narration, and the colonial grammar embedded within display and exhibition arrangements. Dr. Frank’s curated exhibitions include Visions of Possibilities (Bonnefanten Museum, 2023), Ecologies of Elsewhere co-curated with Portia Malatjie (Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, 2023), Re(as)sisting Narratives (Framer Framed, 2016 and District Six Museum), Fugitive Desires (198 Gallery), and Proclamation 73 (Durban Art Gallery, 2018) (co-curated with Zara Julius).

Dr. Frank co-leads the Tidal Studies Group - a collaborative group exploring the politics of water, mud, swamps, muck, colonial water management, as well as queer feminist diasporic explorations of water.

Email to get in touch: chandrafrank@gmail.com.