New Faculty Seminar: Mark Rifkin
HI Seminar Room (218 Clemens Hall)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Join us for a New Faculty Seminar with Mark Rifkin (Professor, Departments of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and Indigenous Studies) as we celebrate the release of his newest book, The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies (forthcoming, Oct. 2025, Cambridge University Press).
[From the publisher] The book provides a detailed analysis of important work in queer and trans studies over the past thirty years. Stretching from early figures (such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Cathy Cohen, José Muñoz, and Sandy Stone) to the most recent scholarship, it offers a rich account of these fields' major ideas and contributions while indicating how they have evolved. Centering race and empire, the book offers extended discussion of work in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American studies as well as engaging the Global South. The Introduction further addresses historical considerations of sexuality and gender identity, and queer and trans temporalities, while also providing a robust account of social and political movements that preceded the emergence of queer and trans studies as scholarly fields. Accessible for those unfamiliar with these areas of study, it is also a great resource for those already working in them.
