Heidi Rhodes

Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
With Pomona Since: 2023
  • Work

    Work

    Books

    Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary (forthcoming, Duke University Press, May 2025.)

    The Inheritance of Haunting, poetry collection, (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.)

    Articles & Chapters

    鈥淏ed/Life: Chronic Illness, Postcolonial Entanglements, and Queer Intimacy in the Stay,鈥 in Origins, Objects, and Orientations: Towards a Racial History of Disability Special Issue, Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall 2023.

    鈥淏ridging/Broken in the Break,鈥 co-written with Tala Khanmalek, Feminist Studies, Special Issue, 40th Anniversaries of This Bridge Called My Back and All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave, Vol. 48, No. 1 2022.

    鈥,鈥 Rest and the Rest: Aesthetics of Idleness Issue, in InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal of Visual Culture, April 25, 2021.

    鈥淒efense Strategies鈥 in Falsework, Smalltalk: Political Education, Aesthetic Archives, Recitations of a Future in Common. Edited by Asma Abbas and Colin Eubanks, Curated by the Hic Rosa Collective. Richmond, MA: Some Beloved Books, 2021.

    鈥淎 Decolonial Feminist Epistemology of the Bed: A Compendium Incomplete of Sick and Disabled Queer Brown Femme Bodies of Knowledge鈥, co-written with Tala Khanmalek, Frontiers: A Journal of Women鈥檚 Studies, Special Issue on decolonial feminisms, edited by Wanda Alarc贸n, Dalida Maria Benfield, Annie Isabel Fukushima, Marcelle Maese, Vol. 41, No. 1, May 2020: 35-58. 

    鈥淭he Blood that Has Dried in the Codes: Sovereignty, Right, and the (Im)possibilities of Freedom,鈥 in Diverse Unfreedoms: The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-TransAtlantic Bondages, edited by Sarada Balagopalan, Cati Coe, and Keith Michael Green, New York: Routledge, 2020.

    鈥淭he Right to the Future and Chrono-logics Otherwise: Resisting Governmentality鈥檚 Temporal Conduct鈥 O帽ati Legal Series Journal, June 2019.

  • Education

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Healing Justice and Care Praxis
    • Intro to Queer Studies
    • Critical Disability Studies
    • ID1 - Feminist Experiments in Living Otherwise
    • Crip Futures
    • Intro to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    • Decolonial Politics and Aesthetics