Daniel McCarthy Howard is an online Instructional Assistant Professor in Gender Studies for the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Daniel McCarthy Howard's research interests include:
- affect
- autoethnography
- feminism
- higher education
- interdisciplinary
- music
- queer theory
- queer of color critique
- women of color feminisms
Biography
Daniel received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Performance and Literature, with Graduate Minors in Gender and Women’s Studies and Queer Studies, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their research and teaching interests include queer of color critique, women of color feminisms, and the intersections of music and Gender Studies. Recent publications include “Gender in Performance, Gender as Performance” inThe Musical Quarterly, and “Queering Abuelita” in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. In addition to their work in Gender Studies, they also regularly perform as a classical musician. Before joining the faculty at the University of Mississippi, they taught as Guest Faculty of LGBT Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and as an online Visiting Lecturer in the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University.
Publications
McCarthy Howard, D. (2024). Gender in performance, gender as performance: Surveillance, transgender studies, and reconsidering dress codes for symphony orchestra musicians. The Musical Quarterly, 107(1-2), 128-136.
McCarthy, D. (2022). Queering abuelita: Reconciling loss through the speculative. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 11(4), 27–41.
Education
DM.A. Music, University of Illinois-Urbana Campus (2022)