New Faculty Seminar: Mark Rifkin | The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies [Book Release]
830 Clemens Hall [HYBRID]
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).
Coffee and cookies will be served. Brown bag lunches are welcome.
[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.
Order The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies
For more information and to purchase your copy, visit: www.cambridge.org/9781009435611
Use discount code CIQTS2025
Hardcover | discounted price $79.99 (reg. price $99.99)
Paperback | discounted price $23.99 (reg. price $29.99)
Offer expires October 31, 2026.
Mark Rifkin is Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo and serves as the co-coordinator for the Haudenosaunee-Native American and Indigenous Studies Research Group. He is the author of nine books, including The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies, The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance, Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, and When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty. He has published over thirty articles in scholarly journals and collections, including American Quarterly, GLQ, American Literature, NAIS, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and Cultural Critique. His work has received a number of awards, including the John Hope Franklin prize for Best Book in American Studies, the Best Subsequent Book award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and the Best Special Issue award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and he has served as president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
