The Department of Women and Gender Studies聽is pleased to announce that Dr. Nathan Alexander Moore has joined聽our baby直播app as an assistant professor.鈥�
As a Black transfemme writer, scholar and educator, Dr. Moore's interdisciplinary work explores the nuances of Blackness, queerness and temporality.聽She applies both critical and creative methods to her scholarship, and her research and writing interests include Black transfemininity, Black speculative arts practices, Black temporalities, and Black visual art and literature. They are currently writing a collection of speculative short fiction called聽The Rupture Files聽centering Black queer and trans subjects navigating disaster. A second project, entitled聽The Osmosis Manual, is equal parts theory, poetry, and memoir charts the connections between Black transfemininity, water, language, and temporality.
She holds a PhD in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and their work has previously been published in Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando from Damaged Goods Press, P-QUEUE, ode to Queer, and Peauxdunque Review. Her essay, 鈥淭ransliminality: Black Transfemmes and the Limit of Visibility Politics鈥� is published in the collected anthology. Their poetry chapbook, , was published by above/ground press in 2021.聽
We are excited to welcome Dr. Moore!