Biography Kong Pheng Pha is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator whose academic research, writing, and public scholarship explores the histories and politics of refugee migration, radical queer, feminist, and anti-racist social movements, activism, and community organizing, legacies of U.S. war and empire, minoritized student experiences in the modern university, and Asian American racial, gender, sexual, …
Biography I am an interdisciplinary scholar of queer Indigenous history, literature, language, and art, with a focus on Anishinaabe and Métis Two-Spirit and trans studies. My current book project, tentatively titled Folks Like Us: Anishinaabe Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Histories of Survivance, tells the story of how three Anishinaabe individuals whose genders were considered “transgressive” …
Biography Dr. Sami Schalk is a full professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison. Her research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. Dr. Schalk’s books, Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2018) and Black Disability Politics (2022) are both published free open access by Duke University Press with …
Biography Nicholas L. Syrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. He holds an AB in Women’s and Gender Studies from Columbia University and a PhD in American Culture and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison he taught at …
Biography Jesse Waggoner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and English at UW-Madison. Waggoner’s research and teaching interests span U.S. literature and culture, feminist disability studies, queer and trans studies, health activisms, and African American studies. Their first book, Black Crip Modern: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability …