Anne McClintock is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Her work has been translated into 18 languages and cited over 25,000 times.  

McClintock is an internationally renowned writer, photographer, public intellectual and activist. She has published over a hundred articles, photo essays, and reviews, and has given keynotes and lectures globally. Her creative essays, journalism, and photographs have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Teen Vogue, Guernica Magazine, E-Flux Magazine, The Nation, Jacobin, Truth Out, Edge Effects, The Times Literary Supplement, Village Voice, Women's Review of Books, New York Post, among others. McClintock’s academic articles have appeared in numerous scholarly venues, including PMLA, Critical Inquiry, Transition, Boundary II, New Formations, South Atlantic Quarterly, Feminist Studies, Small Axe, among others.  

McClintock's journalistic and scholarly work is foundational to gender and sexuality studies, engaging intersectional issues such as race, gender and imperialism;  sexual and gender violence; rethinking fetishism, race and sexuality; sex workers and sex work; visual culture and multi-media studies (especially photography;) as well as postcolonialism, imperialism and critical race studies. McClintock is currently also working in the Environmental Humanities, including climate and environmental justice issues, and animal studies. A central aspect of her current work is braiding her writing with her photographs: including melting glaciers and volcanoes in Iceland as well as the impact of rising waters on Indigenous communities in Louisiana. 

McClintock is the author of the acclaimed book Imperial Leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1995) among other texts. Imperial Leather has been translated into Portuguese as Couro Imperial - Raça, Gênero E Sexualidade No Embate (2018, second edition, 2019). McClintock has also written three monographs: Simone de Beauvoir (Scribners), Olive Schreiner (Scribners), and Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism (2001). She co-edited Dangerous Liaisons. Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (1995) with Aamir Mufti and Ella Shohat. She also co-edited Queer Transexions of Race, Nation and Gender (1997) with Jose Esteban Munos and Philip Harper; and edited Sex Workers and Sex Work (1995). McClintock has three books in progress: Unquiet Ghosts. From the Forever War to Climate Chaos (Duke U.P Trade Series); Skin Hunger. A Chronicle of Pleasure, Power and Profit (Jonathan Cape); and Planet of Intimate Trespass (Routledge). 

Anne McClintock has won numerous awards, including two MacArthur SSRC Fellowships, a Columbia University’s Distinguished Human Rights Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a Feminist Scholars Award, four Columbia University Presidential Fellowships, the FE Woodbridge Distinguished Fellowship at Columbia, the Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship, and a Humanities Council “Magic Award” at Princeton. McClintock has also been awarded fifteen Artist Residency Fellowships: at MacDowell, Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center for the Arts, and Dorland. She has an Honorary Professorship at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and at  Concordia University, Canada. The Honorary Anne McClintock Professorship has been created at Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India, in honor of her journalism. A Swedish Festshrift in celebration of Imperial Leather: Mana, 2-3, Malmo: Sweden, Tema: Imperial Leather, was translated into Swedish by Maja Sager, Malmo, Sweden. Her work has been featured in The Times of India 

McClintock’s photographs have been published in Teen Vogue, exhibited at the Chicago Architectural Biennial (2019), and also at the TBA 21 Academy, Venice (2020); the James Gallery NYC, Ocean Space and Messy Studios in Venice; at Slought Gallery,  University of Pennsylvania. Her collaborative photo spread “The Future is Now” is published in Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, eds Azoulay, Ewald, Meiselas,  Raiford and Wexler. Her photographs have appeared on the cover of The Nation, Karl Kusserow ed. Picture Ecologies (Princeton Art Museum), as well as Princeton's Homepage. The Princetonian, Princeton Alumni Weekly, as well as The Times of India. 

McClintock held the Simone de Beauvoir Chair in Gender Studies and the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 15 years. At Princeton, McClintock directs the Fluid Futures Forum, FluidFutures.com, and co-directs the Environmental Humanities Colloquium with Rob Nixon in the High Meadows Environmental Institute Environhumcolloquium.com