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BOOK

Gender Beyond Bodies: Trans Histories in American Art After WWII ​(manuscript under review)

EDITED VOLUME

"New Work in Transgender Art and Visual Culture Studies" (PDF), co-editor with Kirstin Ringelberg, Journal of Visual Culture 19, no. 2 (August 2020). 

ARTICLE IN PROGRESS

“Uphill Battles: The Federal Government and Disability in American Visual Culture” (working title, in collaboration with Dr. Jason Weems)

“Unsightly Subjects: Robert Andy Coombs and Disability History in American Art”
  • Article adapted from talk given at the ONE Archives on June 14, 2024 in celebration of the exhibition Robert Andy Coombs: No Content Warning​ co-curated with Alexis Bard Johnson

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

“Cut and Sew: Gender Expansion through Greer Lankton’s Dolls” (PDF), American Art 38, no. 3 (Fall 2024)
  • Awarded the 2024 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award (presented annually to the author of the most distinguished peer-reviewed article in American Art, the academic journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, co-published by the University of Chicago Press)

"Trans Femininity, Temporality, and Kinship in Greer Lankton’s It’s All About ME Not You,” Feminist Studies (forthcoming, 2025) 
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"Envisioning Non-Binary Gender: The Art of Forrest Bess" (PDF), Archives of American Art Journal 61, no. 1 (Spring 2022).

"Prismatic Views: A Look at the Growing Field of Transgender Art and Visual Culture Studies (Issue Introduction)" (PDF), co-author with Kirstin Ringelberg, Journal of Visual Culture 19, no. 2 (August 2020).
  • included in Getsy, David and Che Gossett (2021) “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History" (PDF), Art Journal, 80:4, 110-115.

​"Chris Vargas’s Consciousness Razing: From Forgetting to Futurity" (PDF), Transgender Studies Quarterly 7:1 (February 2020). ​
  • included in Getsy, David and Che Gossett (2021) “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History" (PDF), Art Journal, 80:4, 110-115.
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INVITED CONTRIBUTOR

“Vital Signs: Artists and the Body,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Archived Interview & Exhibition Audio (November 1, 2024-February 22, 2025)
Invited by Lanka Tattersall, Laurenz Foundation Curator, with Margarita Lizcano Hernandez, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints, and Arlette Hernandez, Associate Educator, Interpretation, Research, and Digital Learning
  • Forrest Bess: Number 40, 1949
  • Greer Lankton, Journal #12 Sketchbook (September 1977), 1977 
  • Joyce Randall Senechal and Greer Lankton, The Contortionist, 1978

​“Forrest Bess: The Hermaphrodite,” “Greer Lankton: Candy Darling,” and “Jerome Caja: Ascension of the Drag Queen” (PDF), catalog entries Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects (book), edited by David Evans Frantz, Christina Linden, and Chris E. Vargas (2023).

"Trans Visibility and Trans Viability: A Roundtable" (PDF), Journal of Visual Culture 21, no. 2 (August 2022).
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Art and Queer Culture, Second Edition (PDF), contributing author; co-authored by Richard Meyer, Catherine Lord; additional contributors Jon Davies and Alexis Bard Johnson (London: Phaidon “Themes and Movements,” 2019), 121, 257, 260, 263, 265, 270, 274, 276. Entries: 
  • Pre-press book layout of The Transsexual Phenomenon, written by Harry Benjamin, 1966
  • Chris E. Vargas ‘Transgender Hiroes’ MOTHA Promotional Broadside, 2013
  • Reina Gossett (Tourmaline) and Sasha Wortzel Lost in the Music, 2017
  • Jamil Hellu Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (A.K.A. Faluda Islam) Grew Up in Pakistan. In Arabic Poetry, a Deer Often Symbolizes an Effeminate Young Man. In Brazil, The Word Deer ('Veado') is Commonly Used as Slang to Insult Gay Men, 2017
  • Giuseppe Campuzano Letanía, 2012
  • Evelyn Taocheng Wang Dusk, 2017
  • Vaginal Davis Heraclitus, 2015
  • Nabil Vega Visiting Thahab, Ongoing

"Natani Notah: Contemporary Form, Indigeneity and Feminist Action," Stanford University Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Catalog (spring 2018).
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"Print/Collect: Graham Coreil-Allen" (PDF), (Print/Collect exhibition catalog), curated by Jennifer Coster (February 2013).

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