Research Jam: Trans Media Histories and Futures

How have trans people created and critiqued media? How do trans people’s media histories shape the present and future?

This roundtable endeavors to answer these questions and more through an interdisciplinary engagement with trans media production and reception in contexts ranging from archives and novels to zines and online spaces.

Moderator:

Morgan DiCesare is a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in Communication Studies. Through readings of oral histories, collected first-hand documents, and memoirs, her research takes up daily life in the 1970s and present to address queer and trans modes of living and worldmaking beyond those presented by institutional sources.

Speakers:

Michael Ann DeVito is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Communication Studies, and director of the Northeastern University Sociotechnical Equity and Agency Lab. An expert in social and critical computing, her research takes a qualitative, interpretivist approach to making sociotechnical systems more useful and less harmful to marginalized communities and users.

Eamon Schlotterback is a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in the Writing Program. Her research attends to the poetics of self-creation and the work of political imagination in transgender life writing and fiction.