The Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture at the University of Manchester presents:
BOOK LAUNCH: The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (2024)
Join us to celebrate the launch of this landmark volume! Followed by a wine reception
The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature examines the intersection of transgender studies and literary studies, bringing together essays from global experts in the field. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of trans literature, highlighting the core topics, genres, and periods important for scholarship now and in the future. The nearly 600-page volume covers a dazzling array of topics and genres of literature. This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, gender studies, trans studies, literary theory, and literary criticism.
We will hear from one of the book's co-editors Dr. Sabine Sharp (Manchester), along with three international contributors. See below for full bios.
Lenka Filipova (she/her) completed her doctorate in English Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Recent publications include Ecocriticism and the Sense of Place (Routledge 2021), and a contribution to The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature. She has forthcoming chapters and articles on 18th-century travel writing, narratives of oil and gender, animal studies, and the Blue Humanities. She is currently at work on her postdoctoral project on “material fictions” in literary and cultural narratives in the global 18th century.
Esteban F. López-Medina (they, them, their) is a primary teacher: specialist in English, BA in Religious Studies, BA in English Studies, and PhD in Feminist and Gender Studies. He has worked as a teacher in all stages, from Early Childhood Education to University, teaching different subjects such as English and history in English, in Spain and Argentina. Associate lecturer at Universidad Complutense de Madrid Faculty of Education since 2015, he has later worked at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2020-2021), Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (2021-2022), Valencian International University (since 2020), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (since 2021), the University of California Education Abroad Program (since 2022), and Instituto Franklin of Universidad de Alcalá (since 2023). He focuses his research on queer multimodal representation in educational resources in general, and EFL and CLIL materials in particular. He also serves as a reviewer for different journals, and belongs to the editorial board of The Professional Educator Journal (Auburn University, Alabama), in the section of Critical Studies in Education.
Eamon Schlotterback is a doctoral candidate in literature at Northeastern University studying transgender literature and theory. Her dissertation project attends to the radical potential for self-creation in life writing by trans authors. She has previously worked at Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and the Digital Transgender Archive. Her work has appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly and Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies.
Sabine Sharp is a scholar of trans and science fiction studies. In March 2021, they completed a PhD titled “Monsters, Time-Travel, and Aliens: Tracing the Genealogies of ‘Trans’ through Feminist Science Fiction Writing and Film,” in the English and American Studies department of the University of Manchester. Sabine has taught undergraduate courses on literature, film, and criticism with a focus on feminist, queer, trans, and critical race theories. Between 2016 and 2023, they organized the University of Manchester’s Sexuality Summer School, a week of postgraduate events on queer and feminist debates. Alongside developing new writing on trans science fiction, they work as an e-learning support officer at the University of Manchester Library.
