Selected Recent Work
In Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Election, “How to Make an Enemy: Transmisogyny and the U.S. Presidential Election.”
In Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender, and Subjectivity, “Book Banning in the U.S.: A Call for Multi-generational Activism”
Available now from
University of Minnesota Press
Masculinity in Transition
In The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability,
“Masculinity and Disability in the FDR Memorial”
In Hypatia Reviews Online, Review of Jane Ward’s The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Coming out in Winter 2025 “Exuberant Embodiment: A Trans Utopia for an Unbearable Present,
in Utopian Studies
In Frontiers Augmented Online, “‘Jettisoned’: Angelina Weld Grimké and the Banning of Social Justice in U.S. Classrooms”
Film and Media
In Studies in Gender and Sexuality, “Radical ‘Boyhood’ Futures for the Twenty-First Century, or, Pinocchio (Finally) Gets His Phallus”
The Crying Game, directed by Neil Jordan
In EOAGH, “Toward a Theory of Female Phallicism: Disclosure (2020) and The Crying Came (1992)”
In NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies,
“‘Invited to Gaze’: Butch Characters and the Trope of Mental Illness in
American Postwar Film”
In The Lifted Brow,
“Postwar Cinema and
The Historical Reverberations of
Roxane Gay’s Hunger”
Literature
In Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, “‘Blood at the Root’: The Lynching Plays and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké
Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten 1935
In Feminist Formations, Butch Life Writing: Private Desires and Public Demands in the Works of
Gertrude Stein
In Transgender Studies Quarterly, “Epic Stone Butch: Transmasculinity in the Work of Willa Cather”
Music and Performance
In Women’s Studies Quarterly, “‘Doing Josephine’: The Radical Legacy of Josephine Baker's Banana Dance”
In Journal of Lesbian Studies, “‘Just like a natural man’: The B.D. styles of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
and Bessie Smith