Nino Testa

Nino Testa, Ph.D., is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Women's and Gender Studies at West Virginia University. His research focuses on histories of queer arts as activism, especially drag as a form of queer worldmaking. He is co-editing a collection with Catherine Evans titled "Iconic: Drag Infrastructures and Queer Community," which centers local histories of  performance as a way of understanding drag's role in queer community formations. He is originally from Akron, Ohio and currently lives in Pittsburgh with his husband and two dogs Jasmine and Rita.