- About the Contributors
Kadji Amin is associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University. He is the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sex from the University of Pennsylvania and a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship from Stony Brook University. His book, Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History (2017), won an honorable mention for best book in LGBT studies from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. He is currently at work on a second book, “Trans Materialism without Gender Identity.”
Howard Chiang is associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and past chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies. He is the author of Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific 2021, a Lambda Literary Award Final-ist, and After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China 2018, which received the International Convention of Asia Scholars Humanities Book Prize. Both books won the Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He is currently writing a book on the history of psychoanalysis and transcultural reasoning across the Pacific.
Stephanie D. Clare is an associate professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is a feminist, queer, and trans theorist and the author of Earthly Encounters: Sensation, Feminist Theory, and the Anthropocene (2019). Her current book project, Non-Binary Wo/man: An Autotheory, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Patrick R. Grzanka is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Tennessee, where he is also chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. His current book project, The “Born This Way” Wars: Sexuality, Science, and the Future of Equality (under advance contract with Cambridge University Press), explores the affective and political investments that shape the pursuit of sexuality’s biogenetic origins. Terminally undisciplined, he holds a PhD in American studies and BA in journalism, both from the University of Maryland.
Emmett Harsin Drager is a postdoctoral fellow of trans and queer studies in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri. Their work can be found in Transgender Studies Quarterly and the anthology Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies.
Benjamin Kahan is Robert Penn Warren Professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life (2013) and The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality (2019). He is also the editor of Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality (2016), The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (under contract), and a coeditor of Theory Q, a book series from Duke University Press.
Greta LaFleur is associate professor of American studies at Yale University. LaFleur is the author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (2018) and the coeditor of Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern, Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition, Vol. 1, and prior special issues of American Quarterly and Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Rovel Sequeira is LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow and incoming assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Rovel is currently working on a book manuscript titled “The Nation and Its Deviants: Global Sexology and the Racial Grammar of Sex in Colonial India,” which foregrounds the intertwined circulation histories of sexual scientific and literary forms in producing nonliberal sexual and racial epistemologies in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Rovel’s work has appeared in Modernism/modernity; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; and Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activisms.
Aaron J. Stone (they/them) is an affiliated scholar in the Lafayette College Department of English. They hold a PhD in English with a graduate certificate in LGBTQ studies from the University of Michigan. Their research spans queer and trans studies, multiethnic US literatures, modernist studies, and narrative theory. Stone’s book project, “Desires for Form: Modernist Narrative and the Shape of Queer Life,” examines the social crisis of form that Black and white queer subjects faced in early twentieth...