BIO 

Dr. Chandra Frank is a feminist queer researcher who works on the intersections of archives, waterways, gender, sexuality and race. Her curatorial practice explores the politics of care, experimental forms of narration, and the colonial grammar embedded within display and exhibition arrangements.

Chandra earned a PhD in Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and exhibition catalogues, including Feminist Review, the Small Axe VLOSA catalogue, The Place is Here publication, FOAM Magazine, Stedelijk Studies and the collection Tongues. She recently co-edited a special issue on Archives for Feminist Review. Chandra has written for, amongst others, Africa is A Country, Discover Society and Warscapes. In 2016, she was a Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of the Creative Arts (University of Cape Town).

Her 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). Chandra curated the 2016 Archives Matter Conference at the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths.

Chandra’s book project in progress uses the concept of “Tidal Politics” to explore queer feminist diaspora, order, wildness, and refusal within the Dutch context.

She has taught at Goldsmiths, School for International Training, and California State University Los Angeles. Her areas of teaching include queer and feminist theory, popular culture, and visual cultures. She is on the international editorial board of Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender.

Chandra is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Chandra is available for talks, lectures, conferences, seminars, consultancy and exhibitions.

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