This article is about a queer studies professor. For the technology writer, see Jon Katz.

Jonathan David Katz (Ph. D. 1996) is the current director of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University. He is the former chair of the Department of Lesbian and Gay studies at the City College of San Francisco, and was the first tenured faculty in gay and lesbian studies in the United States. Katz was an Associate Professor in the Art History Department at SUNY Stony Brook, where he also taught queer studies.

Katz is the founder of the Harvey Milk Institute, the largest Queer studies institute in the world, and the Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association.

Katz co-founded Queer Nation San Francisco. He has made scholarly contributions to Queer Studies the focus of his professional career. He was the first artistic director of the National Queer Art Festival in San Francisco and has published widely in the United States and Europe.

His forthcoming book, The Homosexualization of American Art: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and the Collective Closet will be published by University of Chicago Press. An internationally recognized expert in queer postwar American art, Katz has recently published "Jasper Johns' Alley Oop: On Comic Strips and Camouflage" in Schwule Bildwelten im 20. Jahrhundert edited by Thomas Roeske and "The Silent Camp: Queer Resistance and the Rise of Pop Art," in PLOP! Goes the World, edited by Serge Guilbaut.

Other publications include:

• "Articulate Silence: The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg", Kunstforum, Berlin, 1999
• "Re-viewing the Field: Queer Studies in Art History", Art History, 1999
• "John Cage's Queer Silence or How to Avoid Making Matters Worse", GLQ, Duke University Press, April, 1999
• Reprinted in Here Comes Everybody: The Music Poetry and Art of John Cage, ed. David Bernstein, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
• "Silent Politics and the Performativity of Nothingness," Making a Scene, ed. Henry McCullen, Birmingham University Press, 1999
• "Dismembership: Jasper Johns and the Body Politic" Performing the Body/Performing the Text, eds. Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, New York: Routledge Press, 1999
• Difference/Indifference: Musings on Duchamp and Cage, coauthored with Moira Roth, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998
• "Lovers and Divers: Picturing a Partnership in Rauschenberg and Johns", Frauen/Kunst/Wissenschaft, Berlin. June, 1998
• "Rauschenberg and the Guggenheim", Out Magazine, April, 1998
• "Rauschenberg's Honeymoon", Art & Text, no.16 (May-July), 1998

External links

• Biography
• Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale
• Queer Arts Festival 2002
• California Thinkers
• 300 Years of Queer History at Yale (pdf)