Trans- in history, memory, activism: A lecture by Susan Stryker

Coordina

• Valentina Greco, Università di Bologna

Introduce

• Stefania Voli, Università di Milano, Società Italiana delle Storiche.

Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, and holds a courtesy appointment as Associate Professor in the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences. She is a pioneer of Transgender Studies as well as one of two founding co-editors of the new journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. The author or editor of numerous books and articles on transgender and queer topics for popular and scholarly audiences alike, she won an Emmy Award for the documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, a Lambda Literary Award for The Transgender Studies Reader, and the Ruth Benedict Book Prize for The Transgender Studies Reader 2.