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Jennifer DeVere Brody was educated at Vassar College, Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania. She held the Weinberg College Professorship at Northwestern University and, before coming to Stanford, taught in English, African American Studies, Gender Studies and Theater at many schools including UC-Riverside and Duke University. Her research has been supported by the Royal Society for Theatre Research in Great Britain, the Ford and Mellon Foundations and she won the Monette-Horwitz Prize for Independent Research Combatting Homophobia. Her books, both published by Duke University Press, include Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture (1998) and Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play (2008). She teaches classes on race and theatre in the US and Britain from 1800 to the present, feminist and queer theory, food studies, and film. She has served as the President of the Women and Theater Association, on the board of Women and Performance, and her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals from Signs to Callaloo, Theater Journal and TDR. She has an edited book on James Baldwin forthcoming and she is working on a new book on sculpture and performance. She Chaired the TAPS Department from 2012-15 and in 2016 will direct the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity.