#EMoTrans
Although the early modern period has long been a rich subject area for studies of gender, race, and sexuality, the field of Early Modern Trans Studies has emerged in the last several years as differentiated from earlier feminist, gender studies, and queer theory approaches. As such, it emphasizes the transhistorical politicization of certain kinds of bodies and the biopolitical machinery of state- and church-endorsed sex and gender categories.
ROAR.
September 26 & 27, 2025; UMass Amherst.
The Roaring Girl is dead. Long live the Roaring Girl.
This two-day working group event will be organized around a series of provocations about Dekker and Middleton’s The Roaring Girl.
What do we think of this play these days? Or, why haven’t we been thinking about it? Has this play past its prime for gender, queer, and trans studies? Are there tools we need or interventions we’d want to make as scholars, actors, editors, and dramaturges that we don’t currently have in place, but should? What might make this play sit up and Roar again?
ROAR will be a series of experiments, explorations & workshops that will transpire over two days of collaborative thinking.
Save the Date
Early Modern
Trans Studies: Per4mance
May 2026; Queens College, CUNY
Early Modern Trans Studies Presents:
Trans Sexualities
November 8 & 9, 2024
EMoTrans has a lot of events on the books for 2024/25!
This fall, we are trying something new with a seminar-style incubator for new works! This seminar invites scholars from many pre-modern subfields and institutions across the country to meet and share works-in-progress on the theme of Trans Sexualities.
Several public events will be offered as part of this exciting program— see poster for details and to RSVP for the lunch.
