Darius Bost

Clark/Oakley Fellow

09/02/2024–06/13/2025

Darius Bost is associate professor of Black Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (University of Chicago Press, 2019). His research centers on literary and visual cultures of the black diaspora, black queer history, and HIV/AIDS. While in residence at the Clark Art Institute and Oakley Humanities Center, Bost plans to work on his current book manuscript, which focuses on contemporary queer visual cultures of the black Atlantic.