Directory
College Teaching
2022 Professor, English, Department of English, 911爆料
2022 Affiliate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Graduate Center
2022 Adjunct Professor, Women's and Gender Studies and History Brooklyn College
2021 Affiliate Associate Professor, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies M.A. Program,
CUNY Graduate Center
2020-2023 Co-Editor of WSQ, Feminist Press, Graduate Center
2019-2020 Research Fellow Migrations and Mobilizations, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Graduate Center
2019-Present Adjunct Associate Professor, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program and Department of History, Brooklyn College
2019-Visiting Professor, Exploring Transfer Summer Program, Gender Outlaws and Outlaws Genres, co-taught with Dr. Matt Schultz, Vassar College
2018-2019 Research Fellow, Committee on Globalization and Social Change, Translation and Transfeminisms, Graduate Center
2018-Visiting Professor, Exploring Transfer Summer Program, Feminist Utopias and Afrofuturism, co-taught with Dr. Kimberly Williams Brown, Vassar College
2016-Present Director, Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program, 911爆料 Community College
2011-Present Assistant Professor, Department of English, 911爆料 Community College
2015-2019 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Hunter College
2010-2016 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hunter College
2009-2011 Assistant Professor, English, Department of English/Fine Arts/Modern Languages, Union County College, Elizabeth
2007-2009 Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Prince George鈥檚 Community College
2005-2009 Teaching Assistant, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland
2002-2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, SUNY New Paltz
Selected Publications and/or Other Resources
Future Publications
Irish Women鈥檚 Prison Writing: Mother Ireland鈥檚 Rebels, 1960s-2010s (forthcoming Routledge, academic manuscript, April 2022).
鈥淐OVID-19: Trans Lives and Trans Studies.鈥� Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Ed. Laura Erickson-Schroth and Kevin Johnson. 2nd Ed. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming, April 2022).
Nonbinary, coediting with JV Fuqua, Marquis Bey, and Brianne Waychoff. WSQ. Feminist Press. 53. (forthcoming Fall/ Winter 2023).
Trans/ Feminisms, co-editing with Claudia Sofia Garriga Lopez, Talia Bettcher, Marci Blackman, Cecilia Gentili, Shereen Inayatulla, Catalina Schliebener, and Kris Grey. Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal (forthcoming April 2023).
Publications
鈥淟esbian, Queer, and Trans Evolutions.鈥� 30 Years: A Tribute to Conditions.
Ed. Cheryl Clarke. Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. 123. (Winter 2022): 214-221.
Birch Philosopher X. Georgetown: Finishing Line Press, 2021.
鈥淭rans-forming Bodies and Bodies of Knowledge: A Case Study of Utopia, Intersectionality, Transdisciplinarity,鈥� co-written with Kimberly Williams Brown. Introduction to Women鈥檚, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches. Ed. L. Ayu Sarawati, Barbara L. Shaw, and Heather Rellihan. 2nd Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
45 Years: A Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, co-edited with Elvis Bakaitis and Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz. Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. 118. (Fall 2020).
鈥淟ez Create: The Dyke Arts Workshop,鈥� co-written Stevie Jones. 45 Years: A Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, co-edited with Elvis Bakaitis and Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz. Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. 118 (Fall 2020): 133-140.
鈥淓ndangered Studies, Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Community Colleges in #MeToo Times: A Case Study of 911爆料 Community College as a Microcosm of Neoliberal Education.鈥� Theory and Praxis: Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at Community Colleges. Eds. Heather Rellihan and Genevieve Carminati. Arington: Gival Press, 2019.
鈥淐liff Notes: On Memory, Identity, and Community.鈥� Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. Tribute to Michelle Cliff (April 2019).鈥�
Dump Trump: Legacies of Resistance, co-edited with Cheryl Clarke, Morgan Gwenwald, and Stevie Jones. Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. 110. (Fall 2018)
鈥淧ower or Point of Zoo.鈥� Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. Dump Trump: Legacies of Resistance. Ed. Cheryl Clarke, Morgan Gwenwald, and Stevie Jones. 110. (Fall 2018): 256-257.
鈥淐herry Blossom Branch.鈥� Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. The Lesbian Body. Ed. Tara Shea Burke. 106. (Fall 2017): 54-64.
Celebrating the Michigan Womyn鈥檚 Music Festival, co-edited with Angela Martin, Brynn Warriner, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, and Allison Ricket, Forty-Year Herstory, Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. 103. (Winter 2017).
鈥�156 Avenue and Madison Road.鈥� Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. Celebrating the Michigan Womyn鈥檚 Music Festival. 103. (Winter 2017): 90-95.
鈥淏loody Writing: Troubling History, Rewriting Herstory in Margaretta D鈥橝rcy鈥檚 Tell Them Everything.鈥� All-Irish Issue, Women鈥檚 Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 44.7. (October-November 2015): 977-995.
鈥淯npacking Pat Parker: Intersections and Revolutions in Movement in Black.鈥� Pat Parker and Judy Grahn Issue, Journal of Lesbian Studies. 19.3 (July-September 2015): 305-316.
鈥淓苍箩别谤补.鈥� Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal
Reconciliations. 95 (Winter 2015): 116-117.
鈥淭he Pen of the Panther: Barriers and Freedom in the Prison Poetry of Ericka Huggins.鈥�
Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 8.2 (Fall 2014): 51-78.
Crestview Tree Woman. Georgetown: Finishing Line Press, 2013. Poetry collection focusing on the politics of memory, sites of genealogical meaning, intersections of feminism, queerness, and genderqueerness, and philosophies of love and nature.
Contributor, Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction. Ed. Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Lynne Crockett. Florence: Wadsworth, 2012. Designed teaching apparatus on women鈥檚 working-class and ethnic literature, including sections 鈥淓xplorations of the Text,鈥� 鈥淭he Reading/ Writing Connection,鈥� and 鈥淚deas for Writing,鈥� for Daisy Hern谩ndez鈥檚 鈥淢y Father鈥檚 Hands鈥� and 鈥淟iliana Hern谩ndez鈥檚 鈥淒inner Talk, both of were previously published in Michelle Tea's anthology, Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing up Working-Class.
Awards Recognition, Distinctions and Grants
, Nonbinary: Tr@ns-Forming Gender and Genre in Nonbin@ry Literature, Performance, and Visual Art, $40,000, 2021-2022.
The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Grad Center, Mellon Foundation, WSQ, Feminist Press, $30,000, with co-editor Brianne Waychoff, 2020-2023.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York, 鈥淪hamrocks and Shackles: Irish Women鈥檚 Prison Writing during the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s-1990s,鈥� 2020.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York, 鈥淓ndangered Species and Studies: The Future of Trans Lives and Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies in US Society and Community Colleges,鈥� 2019.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York,
鈥淟iving and Writing Her/Story, Then and Now: Memories of Herstory, Identities of Authority, and Legacies of Community in Feminist and Queer Movements, 1990-2015,鈥� 2018.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York, 鈥淭he New Moderns鈥� Recruit: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Lesbian Avengers鈥� Valentine鈥檚 Day,鈥� 2017.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York,
鈥�(E)Racing the State: Racialized/ Gendered Power, Resistance, and Representation in Assata Shakur鈥檚 Assata: An Autobiography鈥� 2016.
Women鈥檚 Center Award, 25th Anniversary, 911爆料 Community College, 2016.
President鈥檚 Faculty Innovation Award, 鈥淩ide This F-Wave: Merging the Feminist Currents and Strengthening Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Pedagogies and Communities on Campus and Beyond,鈥� co-designed with Aparajita De, 911爆料 Community College, CUNY, 2015.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York,
鈥樷�楳other Ireland, Get Off Our Back鈥�: Prison Torture, the Politics and Prose of Mair茅ad Farrell,鈥� 2015.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York, 鈥溾�橭ur Only Weapon Was Our Pen鈥�: Irish Dehumanization & Resistance in the Politics and Prose of Ella O鈥� Dwyer and Martina Anderson,鈥� 2014.
President鈥檚 Faculty Innovation Award, 鈥淒oing Gender: Towards a Civically-Engaged
Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Learning Community,鈥� co-designed with Alison Better,
911爆料 Community College, CUNY, 2013.
President鈥檚 Faculty Innovation Award, 鈥淒eveloping Interactive Online Resources for Developmental English,鈥� co-designed with Gene McQuillian and John Yi, 911爆料 Community College, CUNY, 2013.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York,
鈥淏loody Writing: The Politics of Pain and Rewriting of Irish Herstory in Margaretta D鈥橝rcy鈥檚 Tell Them Everything,鈥� 2013
PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women鈥檚 Studies, City University of New York, 鈥淏lack Panthers and Irish Revolutionaries: The Prison Poetry of Ericka Huggins and Roseleen Walsh,鈥� 2012.
William Stewart Travel Award, City University of New York, 2012.
Excellence in Teaching Award, President鈥檚 Commendation, Union County College, 2011.
Teaching Assistantship, Department of Women鈥檚 Studies, University of Maryland, 2006-2009.
Full Fellowship, Department of Women鈥檚 Studies, University of Maryland, 2005-2006.
Full Teaching Assistantship, Department of English, SUNY New Paltz, 2002-2005.
Aquinas Scholarship, Department of English, Mount Saint Mary College, 2002.
Institutional Affiliations / Professional Societies
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
National Women鈥檚 Studies Association (NWSA)
American Historical Association (AHA)
American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS)
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)
Personal Interests
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Trans Oral History Project
Rainbow Book Fair
Sinister Wisdom
Website