Curriculum Vitae : Red Washburn:

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2010 Ph.D., Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland
2007 M.A., Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland
2005 M.A., English, State University of New York at New Paltz

Teaching & Research Interests

Women’s & Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Irish Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and LGBTQ Studies
Contemporary US, Irish, Women’s and LGBTQ Literature
Creative Nonfiction and Poetry
Feminist, Postcolonial, Queer, and Trans Theory
Feminist, Postcolonial, and LGBTQ History in the US & Ireland, Post WWII
Social Movements in the United States and Ireland

Courses Taught

Women’s Literature

LGBTQ Literature

Postcolonial Literature

Irish Literature

Gender Outlaws and Outlaws Genres (co-taught)

Gender Outlaws and Outlaw Genres: Trans and Nonbinary Literature, Performance, and Art

Feminist Utopias and Afrofuturism (co-taught)

Poetry

Nonfiction

Feminist Theory

Queer Theory

Introduction to Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Key Ideas in LGBTQ

Introduction to LGBTQ Studies

Prison, Human Rights, and Gender

Writings from Detention: Gender, Repression, and Politics

Women in American History

History of Feminism

The Political Economy of Women

Research Methods: Feminist and Queer Methodologies

Research Seminar and Fieldwork

WGS Thesis Writing and Professional Development

WGS and LGBTQ Independent Studies and Internships

WGS B.A. and M.A. Theses

WGS PhD Dissertations

Teaching Experience

2026-Present Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York
2024-Visiting Research Fellow, Humanities Institute, Summer 2024
University College Dublin, Ireland
2023-2024 Visiting Professor, Department of English, Interim Director of Women and Gender Studies, Queens College, CUNY
2021-Present Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
2020-2023 Editor of WSQ, Feminist Press, Graduate Center, CUNY
2019-2020 Research Fellow Migrations and Mobilizations, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Graduate Center, CUNY
2019-Present Adjunct Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Department of History, Brooklyn College, CUNY Designed and taught Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies, Feminist Theories, History of Feminism, The Political Economy of Women, and Internships.
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, Trans/Feminisms, Graduate Center, CUNY
2018-Visiting Professor, Exploring Transfer Summer Program, Feminist Utopias and Afrofuturism, co-taught with Dr. Kimberly Williams Brown, Vassar College
2016-2023 Director, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
2011-2026, Professor, Department of English, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. Designed and taught First-Year Composition (with a Women’s and Gender Studies focus), Women and Literature, Sexuality and Literature, Creative Nonfiction, Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, and Women in American History (the latter two are in the Department of History).
2015-2018 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Hunter College, CUNY. Designed and taught Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies, Classics in Feminist Thought, Prison, Human Rights, and Gender, Writings from Detention: Gender, Repression, and Politics, and Queer Theory.
2010-2016 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hunter College, CUNY. Designed and taught Multi-Ethnic American Literature.
2009-2011 Assistant Professor, English, Department of English/Fine Arts/Modern Languages, Union County College, Elizabeth. Designed and taught English Composition I & II, Women Authors, Gender and Sexuality Honors Seminar, World Literature, and US Immigrant Cultures. Supervised independent studies, Contemporary Prison Memoir Writing, Muslim Women in Egypt, Immigration and Art, and Black American Authors.
2007-2009 Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Prince George’s Community College. Designed and taught Introduction to Composition and Literature, Developmental Writing, and Expository Writing (ESL)
2005-2009 Teaching Assistant, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland. Designed and taught Introduction to Women’s Studies: Women, Art, and Culture, Women and Society, and Theories of Feminism.
2002-2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, SUNY New Paltz. Designed and taught First-Year Composition and Literature.

Publications

Future Publications

“Re-Views of Gender: Susan Stryker’s Changing Gender.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. University of Chicago Press (forthcoming).
“Insurgent Dreams in Critical Times: Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s Insurgent Visions: Feminisms, Justice, Solidarity.” WSQ. Feminist Press. (forthcoming).
Nonbinary: Tr@ns-Forming Gender and Genre in Nonbin@ry Literature, Performance, and Visual Art (in progress).

Publications

“In the River.” Uterus Talks. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Eds. Anindita Majumdar and Dána-Ain Davis (June 2026).
“Introduction.” Melting in Your Mouth / Early Works by Chocolate Waters. Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. 137. (Spring 2023).
Nonbinary, coedited with JV Fuqua WSQ. Feminist Press. 53. (Fall 2023).
Trans/ Feminisms, co-edited 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. 128. (Spring 2023).
Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960s-2010s. New York: Routledge, 2022.
“COVID-19: Trans Lives and Trans Studies.” Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Ed. Laura Erickson-Schroth and Kevin Johnson. 2nd Ed. New York: Oxford, 2022.
“Lesbian, Queer, and Trans Evolutions.” Tribute to Conditions. Ed. Shromona Mandal, Cheryl Clarke, and Julie R. Enszer. Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. 123. (Winter 2022): 214-221.
Birch Philosopher X. Georgetown: Finishing Line Press, October 22, 2021.
“Trans-forming Bodies and Bodies of Knowledge: A Case Study of Utopia, Intersectionality, Transdisciplinarity,” co-written with Kimberly Williams Brown. Introduction to Women’s, 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. 81-86.
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).
“Lez Create: The Dyke Arts Workshop,” 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.
“Endangered Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Community Colleges in #MeToo Times: A Case Study of Kingsborough Community College as a Microcosm of Neoliberal Education.” Theory and Praxis: Women’s and Gender Studies at Community Colleges. Eds. Heather Rellihan and Genevieve Carminati. Arington: Gival Press, 2019. 213-221.
Cliff Notes: On Memory, Identity, and Community.” Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. Moon and Cormorant. Ed. Julie R. Enszer. (Spring 2019). 127-133.
“Power or Point of Zoo.” 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.
“Cherry Blossom Branch.” 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’s 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).
“156 Avenue and Madison Road.” Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal. Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. 103. (Winter 2017): 90-95.
“Bloody Writing: Troubling History, Rewriting Herstory in Margaretta D’Arcy’s Tell Them Everything.” All-Irish Issue, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 44.7. (October-November 2015): 977-995.
“Unpacking Pat Parker: Intersections and Revolutions in Movement in Black.” Pat Parker and Judy Grahn Issue, Journal of Lesbian Studies. 19.3 (July-September 2015): 305-316.
“Enjera.” Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal Reconciliations. 95 (Winter 2015): 116-117.
“The Pen of the Panther: Barriers and Freedom in the Prison Poetry of Ericka Huggins.”Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 8.2 (Fall 2014): 51-78.
Crestview Tree Woman. Georgetown: Finishing Line Press, 2013.
Contributor, Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction. Ed. Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Lynne Crockett. Florence: Wadsworth, 2012. Designed teaching apparatus on women’s working-class and ethnic literature, including sections “Explorations of the Text,” “The Reading/ Writing Connection,” and “Ideas for Writing,” for Daisy Hernández’s “My Father’s Hands” and “Liliana Hernández’s “Dinner Talk, both of were previously published in Michelle Tea’s anthology, Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing up Working-Class.
“Kissing the Present: Corporations, ‘Debt Slavery,’ and the Incorporation of a Feminist ‘Cyborg Identity’ in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.” Shawangunk Review. Vol. XVI. The State University of New York at New Paltz Press, 2005.
“The (Dis)empowering and (In)expressive Power of Words: The Relationship between Silence and Violence in Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” Shawangunk Review. Vol. XV. The State University of New York at New Paltz Press, 2004.

Presentations at Professional Conferences

“Gender Outlaws and Outlaw Genres: Trans-Forming Imagi-nation in Irish Trans Cultures and Histories.” Trans* Research Association of Ireland Symposium. November 20-21, 2026. Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
“New Directions in Trans Archiving,” co-presenting with Elvis Bakaitis, Eli Erlick, and Gabriel San Emeterio. American Studies Association, November 20-22, 2025, Puerto Rico Convention Center.
“Making Trans History: Resisting Censorship, Preserving Culture, and Building Radical Archives,” co-presenting with Riah Lee Kinsey, Elvis Bakaitis, Eli Erlick, and Gabriel San Emeterio. National Women’s Studies Association, November 13-16, 2025, Puerto Rico Convention Center.
“Archives against Erasure: The NYC Trans Archives,” co-presenting with Riah Lee Kinsey, Elvis Bakaitis, Eli Erlick, and Gabriel San Emeterio, moderated by Rachael A. Dreyer, Special Collections Library, October 16, 2025, Pennsylvania State University.
“Writing behind Walls: Comradeship, “No Wash,” Hunger Strikes, and Fecal Art in the Prison Prose of Mairéad Farrell,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Conference, October 4-5, 2024, Baruch College, CUNY, New York.
“‘Our Only Weapon Was Our Pen’: Irish Dehumanization & Resistance in the Politics and Prose of Ella O’ Dwyer and Martina Anderson,” Feminist and Queer Spatialities: Care, Connection and Change Conference, School of Geography, August 21-22, 2024, University College Dublin, Ireland.
“’We All Suffer from Walls’: Decolonial Feminist Change in Roseleen Walsh’s Prison Poetry,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, June 17-21, 2024, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
2021″Internal Threats to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Programs and Departments,” co-presented with Elizabeth Currans and Janaka Bowman Lewis, National Women’s Studies Association, Zoom, November 18, 2021.
2021 “Transnational Feminism: Its Pedagogies and Problems,” co-presented with L. Ayu Saraswati, Barbara Shaw, and Heather Rellihan. National Women’s Studies Association, Zoom, October 15, 2021
2021. “Poetical Pedagogies in Community College Classrooms,” co-presented with Bridget Kriner, Brianne Waychoff, and Heather Rellihan. National Women’s Studies Association, Online, October 15, 2021.
2020 “Attacks on Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Departments from Within and Outside.” Chair and Director Meeting. National Women’s Studies Association. March 6, Chicago, IL.
2020 “Queer Preservations: LGBTQ Archives Across New York.” Co-presented with Cheryl Beredo, Caitlin McCarthy, Colette Montoya-Sloan, Stephen Petrus, and Olive Casareno. American Historical Association. January 3-6. New York.
2019 “Rise for Higher Education: Social Difference, Feminist Pedagogy, and Transformative Justice in the Exploring Transfer Program at Vassar College.” Co-presented with Colette Cann, Kimberly Williams Brown, Nicole Beveridge, Bernetta Parson, Alexandria Smalls, and Tania Rodriquez. National Women’s Studies Association. November 14-17, San Francisco, CA.
2019 “Queering the Nineteenth-Century: The Love Letters of Charity Byrant and Sylvia Drake,” Co-presented with Thomas J. Balcerski on panel, “Writing Early Queer Lives: Authorial and Biographical Imperatives before 1900.” American Historical Association and Modern Language Association, January 3-6, Chicago, IL.
2018 “What’s Her/Story?: History and Living Herstory,” Co-presented with Bonnie J. Morris on panel, “Teaching and Archiving Lesbian Histories.” American Historical Association, January 4-7, Washington, DC.
2017 “Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Roundtable,” Co-presented with Lisa Diedrich. State of the Field: A Conference for Emerging Scholars in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, April 7, SUNY Stony Brook, New York.
2017 “Sheroes in Writing.” Herstory Festival, Pride at Work, March 30, New York, New York University.
2017 “In Memory of the Voices We Have Lost: The Lesbian Herstory Archives,” Co-presented with Maxine Wolfe and Colette Montoya-Sloan. Herstory Day: An Intergenerational Celebration of Women’s History in New York City. March 26, the Museum of the City of New York, New York.
2016 “The Personal is Political: (En)Gendering and Que(e)ring Identity and History in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.” Co-presented with Brian Katz and Jennifer Oliveri, Transitions and Transactions II: Literature Pedagogy in the Community College Conference, Borough of Manhattan Community College, April 1-2, New York, New York.
2016 “Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Across the (Inter)Disciplines: Feminist Research, Pedagogy, and Collegiality,” Co-presented with Kamili Posey, Maria Bartolomeo, Jennifer Oliveri, Amy Karp, and Kevicha Echols. Northeast Modern Language Association, Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus, March 17-20, Hartford, Connecticut.
2015 “Green and Gay: Don’t Neoliberal Rainbow on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade,” New England American Conference for Irish Studies, November 20-21. Hartford, Connecticut.
2014 “’Mother Ireland, Get Off Our Backs’: Prison Torture, the Politics and Prose of Mairéad Farrell,” Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies, October 10-11. Fairfax, Virginia.
2014 “Reading against the Curriculum: Rethinking Disciplinary Divides in Composition and Literature Classrooms,” Co-presented with Eileen Ferretti, Ronna Levy, Jennifer L. Oliveri, and DL Anderson on panel, “Reading across the Curriculum: Making Room for Reading in the English Classroom,” Transitions and Transactions II: Literature Pedagogy in the Community College Conference, Borough of Manhattan Community College, April 25-27, New York, New York.
2013 “FIGuring out the Field: Faculty Interest Groups, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Collaboration across the Disciplines,” Co-presented with Dahlia Valle and Amy Karp, Women and Society Conference, October 25-26. Poughkeepsie, New York.
2013 “‘Our Only Weapon Was Our Pen’: Irish Dehumanization & Resistance in the Politics and Prose of Ella O’ Dwyer and Martina Anderson,” Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies, November 15-16. Rochester, New York.
2012 ‘”We All Suffer from Walls’: Nationalism and Feminism in Roseleen Walsh’s ‘For Veronica,'” Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies, October 5-6. Amherst, New York.
2012 “Literary Travels: Teaching Women’s Immigrant Literature in the Community College Classroom,” Transitions and Transactions: Literature Pedagogy in the Community College Conference, Borough of Manhattan Community College, April 20-21, New York, New York.
2012 “Bloody Writing: The Politics of Pain and Rewriting of Irish Women’s Herstory in Margaretta D’Arcy’s Tell Them Everything,” Northeast Modern Language Association, March 15-18, Rochester, New York.
2012 “Our Only Weapon Was Our Pen”: Irish Dehumanization & Resistance in the Politics and Prose of Ella O’ Dwyer and Martina Anderson,” Women, the Arts and Activism: Women’s History Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, March 2-3, Bronxville/ Yonkers, New York.
2010 “Two Steps Forward, Two Clauses Back: Class-ifying Women in Rita Ann Higgins’ ‘Some People,'” Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies, May 5-8, Abington, Pennsylvania.
2010 “Prison Cells, Street Cuffs: Metaphorical Black Women’s Imprisonments in Ericka Huggins’ ‘[I Wake in Middle-of-Night Terror]’,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, April 10-14, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
2010 “From Provos to the Tories: Republicanism, Conservatism, & Individualism in the Political Life of Maria McGuire/ Maria Gatland,” New Jersey College English Association, March 27, South Orange, New Jersey.
2009 “Read the (Red) Leaves”: Revolution, Naturalized & Nature, Revolutionized in Merle Collins’ Angel,” Stony Brook Women’s Studies Conference, April 18, New York, New York.
2009 “Unpacking Pat Parker: Radical Black Queer Feminist Poetics in “Movement in Black,” DC Queer Studies Symposium, April 17-18, College Park, Maryland.
2009 “Slave Ships, Shamrocks, and Shackles: Transatlantic Connections in African-American and Irish Women’s Autobiographical Literature of the Anti-Colonial and Civil Rights Movements,” Graduate Research Interaction Day, University of Maryland, April 13, College Park, Maryland.
2009 “Representing the ‘Real’ IRA: The Use of ‘Shout-outs’ in Eavan Boland’s ‘A Cynic at Kilmainham Gaol’ and Roseleen Walsh’s ‘On Commedagh Hill’ as a Form of Irish Republican Remembrance,” DC Graduate English Organization, February 27-28, College Park, Maryland.
2008 “Power, Where Art Thou?: Queering Liberalism & Radicalizing Post/Modern Struggles for Revolution in the United States,” DC Queer Studies Symposium, April 17-18, College Park, Maryland.
2007 “Women’s Wartime Writing: (Re)Writing and (R)evolutionizing the Politics of Daily Life in Occupied Iraq in Riverbend’s Baghdad Burning,” New York College English Association, April 13-14, New Paltz, New York.
2007 “Change, Chains, Change: (Inter)Linking Anti-Colonial Nationalisms, Civil Rights, & Feminisms and Negotiating Nonviolence & Armed Self-Defense in Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s The Price of My Soul, Maria McGuire’s To Take Arms, & Irish Republican Women’s ‘Dirty Protest’ Experiences,” the City University of New York Graduate Center Feminist Studies Group, April 13, New York, New York.
2006 “‘Betwixt and Between’: How Class ‘Performativity’ and ‘Performance’ Travel in Juanita Harrison’s My Great, Wide, Beautiful World,” City University of New York Graduate Center Comparative Literature, November 2-4, New York, New York.
2006 “She AIMs to Please: Mary Brave Bird as ‘The Angel of Wounded Knee and Paradise’ in Lakota Woman,” Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association, October 27-29, Baltimore, Maryland.
2006 “La Revolución dentro de la Revolución” : Zapatista Women and the Anti-Globalization Resistance in Chiapas, Mexico,” University of Maryland Dangerous Places, Potential Spaces: Emerging Feminist Connections and Activisms in Local and Global Contexts, May 24-26, College Park, Maryland.
2006 “Power to the ‘Most [Un]wanted Woman’ in Amerika: Assata Shakur: The ‘Revolutionary Gendered Genderless’ ‘High Priestess’ of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army in Assata: An Autobiography,” Howard University English Department’s Revisiting the Black Arts Movement, March 24-25, Washington, District of Columbia.
2005 “Feminisms 101,” SUNY New Paltz Trans-Forming Feminism, April 23, New Paltz, New York.
2005 “Wav-ing Goodbye?: Merging the Currents and Strengthening the Third-Wave of Feminist Theory and Praxis,” Co-presented with Kathena Hasbrouck, Jennifer Smits, and Meri Weiss, City University of New York Graduate Center English Student Association, March 4, New York, New York.
2004 “Kissing the Present: Corporations, ‘Debt Slavery,’ and the Incorporation of a Feminist ‘Cyborg Identity’ in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower,” SUNY New Paltz Graduate English Symposium, April 29, SUNY New Paltz.
2004 “‘I Think; Therefore, I Am’ Not: Virginia Woolf’s Moments of Being as a Moment of Privilege,” New York College English Association, April 16-17, Albany, New York.
2004 “Avoiding the ‘Yes Ma’am’ Syndrome: Alternative Media as a Catalyst for Critical Analysis, Reflection, and Writing,” Co-presented with Lynne Crockett and Jennifer Lee, State University of New York Council on Writing, April 16-17, Queensbury, New York.
2004 “Is Language or Lengua the ‘Monster?’: Linguistic Conflict as a Revelation of the Bicultural Chicana Identity in Cherríe Moraga’s ‘It’s the Poverty’,” College English Association, April 1-3, Richmond, Virginia.
2004 “From Uncapping Her Pen to Unshackling Her Chains: ‘Writing the Word’ to Free Women’s Minds and the World,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 24-27, San Antonio, Texas.
2004 “‘American Gulag’: Double-Shackling the Chains of Women of Color and the Symbolization of the ‘Outsider-Within’ the Criminal (In)Justice System in Contemporary US Prison Poetry,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, March 10-14, San Antonio, Texas.
2004 “What Difference Does Difference Make?: Audre Lorde’s ‘Who Said It Was Simple’ as a Dialogic of Homogeneity in the Women’s Movement,” Stony Brook University, February 27-28, New York, New York.
2003 “Seeing the ‘I’ in ‘Team’: The Intersectionality of Identity and the Development of Individual Agency through Communal Involvement in Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues,” New York College English Association, October 10-11, Rochester, New York.

Poetry Readings and Performance Art

Issue Launch of WSQ: Nonbinary, Feminist Press, Featured Keynotes and Readings by Kay Ulanday Barrett, Marquis Bey, and Joy Ellison, December 15, 2023 (Zoom).
NYC Launch of Sinister Wisdom 108: Trans/Feminisms, Reading and Panel Discussion, Alison Lubar, Claudia Sofia Garriga Lopez, Diandre Williams, Ursh Skeet, E.F. Schraeder, Sara Youngblood Gregory, Cassidy Scanlon, Joe Kadi, and Samatha Sapp, April 18, 2023 (Zoom).
“Sappho’s Room.” Reading with K-Ming Chang and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal, Zoom, December 8, 2020.
Launch of 45 Years: A Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Sinister Wisdom: Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal, Zoom, October 15, 2020.
“Tr@ns: Possibilities and Bodies.” Performance with Adriana Varella. Estrogenius Festival, Kraine Theatre, New York, March 25, 2019.
Word of Month Poetry Series. Reading with Joe Elliot and Tom Lavazzi. Artbar Gallery, Kingston, New York, July 12, 2018.
“New Configurations — Queer Family.” Performance with Jennifer Watson, Nico Roxe, Elektra KB, Adriana Varella, Kyle Ezra, Joseph Sledgianowski,185668232, Brynda Mara, Nico Roxe, and Shiri Mordechay, Itinerant Performance Art Festival, Queens Museum, New York, May 19, 2018.
“Writers Explore the Lesbian Body.” Reading with Sarah Sarai, Tara Shea Burke, Joan Larken, Amber Carpenter, Alexis Clements, Ayasha Guerin, and Vi Khi Nao, The Bureau of General Services Queer Division, The Center: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, New York, October 27, 2017.
2017 “Spring Poetry Reading: Queer Intergenerations and Feminist Voices.” Reading with Jenny Johnson, Chocolate Waters, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Fran Winant, and Brenda Shaughnessy, May 19, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
2017 “International Female Writers on Local and Global Identities.” Reading with Shauna Barbosa, Wendy Barnes, Rio Cortez, Claire Farley, Jean Lee, and Julie Morrissy, March 26, Bluestockings, New York.
2017 NYC Launch of Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. “A Reading and Remembering,” Lesbian Herstory Archives, reading with Allison Ricket, Arianne Benford, Bonnie Morris, Moe Angelos, Nedra Johnson, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Tara “Kit” Shannon, and Yaniyah Pathfinder Pearson, January 15.
2016 Michelle Cliff Tribute, Lesbian Herstory Archives, co-created with Stevie Jones and Ashley-Luisa Santangelo, November 13.
2016 Leslie Feinberg Tribute, Lesbian Herstory Archives, co-created with Flavia Rando, Morgan Gwenwald, Colette Denali Montoya-Humphrey, and Sherley Olopherne, May 15.
2015 “Re-Telling it Slant: Reclaiming Identities and Rewriting Histories.” Reading with Christina Olivares, Anwar Uhuru, Wazina Zondon, Wendy Barnes, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, and Amy Karp. January 30. Bluestockings, New York.
2013 “F.L.Poets.” Reading with Sherri Felt Dratfield, Ron Price, Alison Carb Sussman, Jennifer Vano, John J. Trause, and Davidson Garrett. September 23. Cafe Reggio, New York.
2013 “In Our Own Tongues: An Inclusive Radical Queer Feminist Reading.” Reading with Wazina Zondon, Christina Olivares, Amy Karp, and Anwar Uhuru. August 30. Bluestockings, New York.
2013 “Old Pens, New Paltz.” Reading with Joann Deiudicibus, Jacqueline Ahl, James Sherwood, and Wendy Barnes. August 23. Inquiring Minds, New Paltz.
2013 “Finishing Line Press Writers: National Poetry Month.” Reading with Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Jeanne Stauffer Merle, and David Appelbaum. May 10. Inquiring Minds, New Paltz.
2013 “Queer Full House: 3 Gay Men, 2 Lesbians, Reading Queerly.” Reading with Julie Enszer, David Bergman, Reginald Harris, and David Groff. April 17, Bluestockings, New York.
2013 “Gay and Lesbian Poetry Night.” Reading with Julie Enszer, Christina Olivares, Anwar Uhuru, David Groff, and Matthew Hittinger. April 11, City College, CUNY, New York.

Honors and Awards

2022 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, Enhanced, $12,000, Nonbinary: Tr@ns-Forming Gender and Genre in Nonbin@ry Literature, Performance, and Visual Art
2021-2022 Mellon/ American Council of Learned Societies Community College Faculty Fellowship, $40,000, Nonbinary: Tr@ns-Forming Gender and Genre in Nonbin@ry Literature, Performance, and Visual Art
2020 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, Traditional B, “Shamrocks and Shackles: Irish Women’s Prison Writing during the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s-1990s”
2020 Center for the Humanities Grant, Lost and Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Women’s Studies Quarterly, co-designed with Brianne Waychoff, CUNY Graduate Center
2019 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, “Endangered Species and Studies: The Future of Trans Lives and Women’s and Gender Studies in US Society and Community Colleges”
2018 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, “Living and Writing Her/Story, Then and Now: Memories of Herstory, Identities of Authority, and Legacies of Community in Feminist and Queer Movements, 1990-2015”
2017 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, “The New Moderns’ Recruit: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Lesbian Avengers’ Valentine’s Day”
2016 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, “(E)Racing the State: Racialized/ Gendered Power, Resistance, and Representation in Assata Shakur’s Assata: An Autobiography“
2016 Women’s Center Award, 25th Anniversary, Kingsborough Community College
2015 President’s Faculty Innovation Award, “Ride This F-Wave: Merging the Feminist Currents and Strengthening Women’s and Gender Studies Pedagogies and Communities on Campus and Beyond,” co-designed with Aparajita De, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
2015 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, “‘Mother Ireland, Get Off Our Backs’: Prison Torture, the Politics and Prose of Mairéad Farrell”
2014 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, “’Our Only Weapon Was Our Pen’: Irish Dehumanization & Resistance in the Politics and Prose of Ella O’ Dwyer and Martina Anderson”
2013 President’s Faculty Innovation Award, “Doing Gender: Towards a Civically-Engaged Women’s and Gender Studies Learning Community,” co-designed with Alison Better, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
2013 President’s Faculty Innovation Award, “Developing Interactive Online Resources for Developmental English,” co-designed with Gene McQuillian and John Yi, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
2013 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, “Bloody Writing: The Politics of Pain and Rewriting of Irish Herstory in Margaretta D’Arcy’s Tell Them Everything”
2012 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Women’s Studies, City University of New York, “Black Panthers and Irish Revolutionaries: The Prison Poetry of Ericka Huggins and Roseleen Walsh.”
2012 William Stewart Travel Award, City University of New York
2011 Excellence in Teaching Award, President’s Commendation, Union County College
2006-2009 Full Teaching Assistantship, Department of Women’s Studies, UMD
2005-2006 Full Fellowship, Department of Women’s Studies, UMD
2002-2005 Full Teaching Assistantship, Department of English, SUNY New Paltz
2002 Aquinas Scholarship, Department of English, Mount Saint Mary College

Professional Service

2024 Co-Founder, NYC Trans Archives, with Elvis Bakaitis
2023 Moderator Roseleen Walsh, “Writing on the Walls: A Performance about Prison, Writing, and Survival in Ireland,” September 21, 3:10-4:25 in 273 Kiely Hall, Women’s and Gender Studies, English, Irish Studies, Comparative Literature, and Media Studies, Queens College, CUNY.
2023-Present Faculty Member, Scholarship Awards Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies, CUNY Graduate Center.
2023-Present Faculty Representative, Graduate Council, Women’s and Gender Studies, CUNY Graduate Center.
2021-Present Faculty Representative, MA. Program Open Houses, Women’s and Gender Studies, CUNY Graduate Center.
2021 Moderator Women’s Studies Quarterly Reading: “Poetry, Prose, and Resistance,” featuring Keisha Gaye-Anderson, Julie Enszer, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Nicole Shawn Junior, Marci Blackman, and JP Howard, National Women’s Studies Association
2021 Moderator Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, “Inhabiting a Fluid Life in a Rigid World: A Reading of The Freezer Door,” Kingsborough Community College
2021 Moderator Margo Okazawa-Rey, “What Time Is It? A Transnational Black Feminist Movement,” Kingsborough Community College
2020-2023, Editor, Women’s Studies Quarterly (Emeritus Brianne Waychoff), Feminist Press, Graduate Center.
2019-2022 Review Chair, The National Women’s Studies Association.
2019 Member, COACHE Committee, College Council, Kingsborough Community College.
2020-Present Mentor, CUNY BA for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies.
2019-2022, Board of Directors, Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS), Graduate Center.
2019 Moderator Robyn Spencer, “The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland,” Women’s and Gender Studies 25th Anniversary Keynote, Kingsborough Community College.
2019 Moderator Flavia Rando, “After Stonewall: My Experience in the Gay Liberation Front and the Radicalesbians,” Stonewall 50th Anniversary Keynote, Kingsborough Community College.
2018-Present Education Committee, LGBTQ Studies, Center for LGBTQ Studies, CUNY Graduate Center.
2018 Moderator, Jack Halberstam, “The Importance and Future of Gender Studies,” Conversation with Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty, Kingsborough Community College.
2018-2021, Delegate at Large, Curriculum, College Council, Kingsborough Community College
2018-2022, Board of Directors, Sinister Wisdom, A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal.
2018, Moderator, Alok Vaid-Menon, “Transfeminisms,” Kingsborough Community College.
2018 Moderator, Cheryl Clarke, “The Imperative for Troublemaking in Literature and Life,” Kingsborough Community College.
2018 Moderator, Sarah Schulman, “The Gentrification of the Mind,” Kingsborough Community College
2017 Moderator, Chocolate Waters, “The Poetry of Chocolate Waters and the Evolution of Feminist Consciousness,” Kingsborough Community College
2017 Moderator, Morgan Gwenwald, “Building Lesbian Communities: A Photographic Journey through the Second Wave,” Kingsborough Community College
2016-2019, Coordinator, Rainbow Book Fair Committee, New York
2016-2022, Coordinator, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn
2016-2022, Co-Facilitator, Lez Create: Dyke Arts Workshop, Lesbian Herstory Archives, with Stevie Jones and Ashley-Luisa Santangelo
2016 Moderator, Kate Bornstein, On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, with Katia Perea, Kingsborough Community College
2015-2022 Literature Committee, Co-Facilitator, with Lesley Broder, Kingsborough Community College
2015 Developmental Retreat, Equity, Kingsborough Community College
2015 Moderator, Slanty Eyed Mama, Women’s History Month, Kingsborough Community College
2014-2018 Editorial Board, Flatbush Review, with Creative Writing Committee.
2014 Creative Nonfiction, New Course Proposal, Kingsborough Community College
2014 Moderator, Athens Boy Choir, Kingsborough Community College
2014-2018 Capstone Review Committee, Kingsborough Community College
2014-2018 Open Doors Learning Community 12 and 68, English and History, Women’s and Gender Studies, Kingsborough Community College
2013-2014 Present Creative Writing Liaison, KCC Reads: The Common Reading Program, Kingsborough Community College
2013 Developmental Retreat, Reading across the Curriculum. Kingsborough Community College
2013-2022 Faculty Advisor, the Women’s and Gender Studies Club, Kingsborough Community College
2013 -2014 Women’s Studies Representative, Liberal Arts Fair, Kingsborough Community College
2013- Present Literature Committee, Kingsborough Community College
2013 Moderator, Maxine Wolfe and Kelly Cogswell, The Lesbian Avengers: Imagination and Activism, Women’s History Month, Kingsborough Community College
2013 Sexuality and Literature, New Course Proposal, Co-Designed with Elizabeth Dill, Kingsborough Community College
2013 English Representative, New Student Orientation, Kingsborough Community College
2012-Present Facilitator, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Faculty Interest Group, Kingsborough Community College
2012 Project Manager, Interdisciplinary Studies, English 92, Kingsborough Community College
2012-2015 Links, 12 and 31, English and Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies, Kingsborough Community College
2012 Moderator, Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love, Women’s History Month, Kingsborough Community College
2012 Practicum Cohort, Developmental English 92, Kingsborough Community College
2012-Writing across the Curriculum Certification, Kingsborough Community College
2012-2018 Editorial Board, Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination, with Farasha Euker and Maya Pašović
2011-2013, Sexuality Faculty Interest Group, Kingsborough Community College
2011-2022 Faculty Ally, Safe Zone, Kingsborough Community College
2011-2022 Women’s and Gender Studies Advisory Board, Kingsborough Community College
2011 Co-Director, Women’s Studies Program, Union County College
2010-2011 Faculty Advisor, (inK)Lined, Union County College
2010-2011 Committee Member, Professional Development Committee, Union County College
2009-2011 Committee Member, Overcoming Hatred / Creating Community, Union County College
2009-2011 Committee Member, Honor Studies Advisory Committee, Union County College
2008-2009 Editor, Women’s Studies Graduate Handbook, University of Maryland
2007-2008 Representative, Graduate Studies Program, Women’s Studies, UMD
2004-2005 Presenter & Mentor, Teaching Assistant Program, English, SUNY New Paltz
2002-2005 Reviewer, New Voices New Visions: Composition at SUNY New Paltz

Professional Membership

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS)
American Historical Association (AHA)
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL)

References

Furnished upon request.