Dylan McCarthy Blackston

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Dr. Blackston’s training, research, and teaching are in the areas of trans studies, trans ecologies, feminist studies, critical life and animal studies, sexuality studies, queer theory, and visual culture studies. He is co-editor of the recently published collection, The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge 2022) and a General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke U Press). He is currently working on his first monograph, Trans*plantations of Life: How Capital Makes and Changes Kinds, which considers how we define life and its value(s) through an examination of the transnational political economies of LGBTQ philanthropy, regenerative medicine, and trans-species embodiments.

 

Education

PhD, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona
MA, Women’s Studies, Georgia State University
BFA, Photography with a minor in Women’s Studies, University of Georgia

Research & Teaching Areas

  • Trans Theory, Trans Ecologies, Feminist Studies, Critical Life and Animal Studies, Sexuality Studies, Queer Theory, Visual Culture Studies 

Recent and Upcoming Courses

  • Transgender Studies
  • Queer and Trans Visual Cultures
  • Feminist Research Methodologies
  • Transnational Feminisms
  • Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Recent Publications

  • “Transing Difference,” forthcoming, 2024. Introduction to Feminist Studies: Notes from the field, co-edited by Hemangini Gupta, Kelly Sharron, Carly Thomsen, and Abraham Weil. New York: Routledge.
  • “Carrying Trans Forward: On Transgender, Gestation, and Trans*plantation,” fall 2023. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 10 (3-4).
  • “Introduction: Transgender Studies Remixed.” 2022. In The Transgender Studies Reader Remix, co-edited by Dylan McCarthy Blackston and Susan Stryker.
  • “Monkey Business: Trans*, Animacy, and the Boundaries of Kind,” 2021. Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Animal and Trans* Studies, co-edited by Eliza Steinbock, Anthony Wagner, and Marianna Szczygielska.  Routledge: 119–133. [Originally published 2017 in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 22 (2), 119–133. Special issue “Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Animal and Trans* Studies,” guest co-edited by Eliza Steinbock, Anthony Wagner, and Marianna Szczygielska.]