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C. Riley Snorton

C. Riley Snorton is a visiting professor in English and Comparative Literature and Sexuality and Gender Studies at Columbia University and the Mary R. Morton professor of English Language and Literature with appointments in the Department of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Nobody is Supposed to Know; Black Sexuality on the Down Low (2014) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017). He is currently the co-editor of GLQ: a journal of gay and lesbian studies.

  • Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary (Magical) Realism

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    • C. Riley Snorton

    This talk focuses on how nonbinary, as an analytic, becomes a portal for rethinking dominant conceptions of temporality, territory, and form within and across social difference. Beginning with literary and media depictions of the Green Swamp and Honey…

  • Une Silhouette cauchemardesque

    Les phénomènes de racialisation et la longue exposition médiatique de la transition

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    • C. Riley Snorton

    In Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, C. Riley Snorton examines American trans historiography through the prism of racial issues: how do gender and race interfere and intertwine in trans and black lives? How do concepts…