- Africa & the Caribbean
- Diaspora
- Latin America
- US
- C21/ Contemporary
- Digital Humanities
- Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
- Race and Empire
- Translation
Liz researches the intersections of trans theory and Black feminist theory in contemporary diasporic writing across the Americas, using translation as a method to illuminate critical, rhizomatic genealogies of trans feminist thought. They currently serve as Graduate Associate at the Philadelphia Trans Oral History Project through the Center for Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies and coordinator of the Gender/Sexuality Reading Group through the English department.
Liz’s work is published in numerous places, most recently TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Qui Parle, and Hopscotch Translation.
Instructor of Record:
Gender and Society, Summer 2024
Gender and Society, Summer 2023
Sex and Representation: Hemispheric Cultural Imaginings, Spring 2023
Writing the Self: Contemporary Memoir across the Americas, Fall 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant:
Introduction to Queer Theory, Spring 2022
Introduction to Gender and Society, Fall 2021