Graduate Associate, The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies

Email

lizrose@sas.upenn.edu

Office Location

BENN 345

Liz researches the intersections of trans theory and Black feminist theory in contemporary diasporic writing across the Americas, using translation as a method to illuminate critical, rhizomatic genealogies of trans feminist thought. They currently serve as Visiting Scholar at the Philadelphia Trans Oral History Project through the Center for Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies and coordinator of the Gender/Sexuality Reading Group through the English department. 

Liz’s work is published in numerous places, most recently TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Qui Parle, and Hopscotch Translation.

Graduate Teaching Assistant:

Introduction to Queer Theory, Spring 2022

Introduction to Gender and Society, Fall 2021

Liz researches the intersections of trans theory and Black feminist theory in contemporary diasporic writing across the Americas, using translation as a method to illuminate critical, rhizomatic genealogies of trans feminist thought. They currently serve as Graduate Associate at the Philadelphia Trans Oral History Project through the Center for Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies and coordinator of the Gender/Sexuality Reading Group through the English department. 

Liz’s work is published in numerous places, most recently TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Qui Parle, and Hopscotch Translation.

Instructor of Record:

Gender and Society, Summer 2024

Gender and Society, Summer 2023

Sex and Representation: Hemispheric Cultural Imaginings, Spring 2023

Writing the Self: Contemporary Memoir across the Americas, Fall 2022

Visiting Scholar

The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, 2023-2024

The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, 2024-2025

Area of Expertise

field/interests

Cultural Studies and Cultural History Histories of Gender and Sexuality LGBTQ Studies and Queer Theory Social Change and Social Justice Transnational Feminisms Women of Color Feminisms