Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Faculty

BA (Hons.), University of Adelaide, Australia. MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Special interest in lesbian/gay/queer studies, 20th-century British and American literature, contemporary feminisms, and literatures of the city; author of Are Girls Necessary?: Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories, Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities, and numerous essays; editor of Diana: A Strange Autobiography; contributor to The Nation and The Women’s Review of Books. SLC, 2000–

BA (Political Science), Yale University. MA (African American Studies), Columbia University. MA (French Studies), New York University. PhD Candidate (Anthropology and French Studies), New York University. A cultural anthropologist, work focuses on questions of sovereignty and sexual politics in Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean. Editor, with historian Manning Marable, of the volume, Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Work published in the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies and Gay and Lesbian Quarterly (GLQ). Former board chair and continued supporter of New York City’s Audre Lorde Project. SLC, 2012–