This entails asking how the linguistically- and culturally-situated ways that we perceive and embody gender enter into L2 education, what normativities manifest there, and how those normativities can be laid bare, upended, and unscripted by L2 teachers and learners.

Knisely’s research, in its broadest form, considers gender and sexuality in the linguistic, socio-cultural, and instructional dimensions of second language (L2) learning. In addition to serving as founding coeditor of the academic journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, she is currently developing several media projects as well as a book project, 'What Transpires Now,' about the uses of transgender history for the present.Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural CompetenceĮmail: Aric Knisely (Ph.D., French and Educational Studies, Emory University) is an Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural Competence as well as affiliated faculty in both SLAT and TSRC at the University of Arizona. She served as executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco from 1999 to 2003 and as director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona from 2011 to 2016, where she served as professor of gender and women’s studies and the coordinator of the university’s Transgender Studies Initiative. She won an Emmy Award for her documentary film, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005), and she has also received a Lambda Literary Award, the Ruth Benedict Book Prize, the Monette-Horowitz Prize for LGBTQ activism, the Transgender Law Center’s Community Vanguard Award, and two career achievement awards in LGBTQ studies: the David Kessler Award from the City University of New York’s Center for LGBT Studies in 2008 and Yale University’s Brudner Memorial Prize in 2015. She is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of numerous books and anthologies, including Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996) Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (2000) The Transgender Studies Reader, volumes 1 and 2 (20) Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (2nd ed., 2017) and co-editor of the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader (2006, 2013) and The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022). Susan Stryker is an award-winning scholar and filmmaker whose historical research, theoretical writing, and creative works have helped shape the cultural conversation on transgender topics since the early 1990s.

Queer Pulp by Susan Stryker