Sensuality, Cyberfeminism, Neoliberalism, Celebrity Studies
C.G.’s research interrogates sensuality as a site where U.S. statecraft is both enacted and contested. Their work theorizes how neoliberal regimes regulate and commodify sensual expression, while foregrounding the ways marginalized communities reconfigure it as a resource for alternative political and social imaginaries. Engaging cyberfeminism and celebrity studies, C.G. examines digital environments as terrains where sensuality is mediated and disciplined, yet also rearticulated through practices of intimacy, embodiment, and collective identification.
Before coming to Boston, C.G. earned their bachelor’s degrees in American studies and English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. They were awarded the Departmental Citation for excellence in American Studies. Their undergraduate thesis analyzed on representations of sex work in Cold War cinema, exploring the entanglements of erotic labor, national identity, and cinematic spectacle during a period of intensified cultural containment.