Trans* Studies: Bodies, Identities and Institutions

Over the last two decades, Trans* Studies has emerged as a distinctive field within gender and queer research. Building on feminist, gender, and queer studies, Trans* Studies continue to challenge trans* exclusion within these fields and provides novel and groundbreaking scholarship that engages differently with questions of bodies, identities, feminism, gender, sexuality and politics. This course will offer an overview of various trans* scholarships, critiques, and engagements, and will highlight some of the most important texts in the field. Moreover, students will be introduced to the various historical debates, tensions, and revisions that have shaped and transformed the field of Trans* Studies over decades. Students will learn some of the key concepts in Trans* Studies and will study texts from various geographies.