Dr. Jonah I. Garde has recently been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on their project, “Germany and the Trans Historical Imaginary: Affective Reimaginations of the Transgender Past.”
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship is the most prestigious postdoctoral award in Canada and provides funding for top-ranked national and international scholars. Dr. Garde will join CENES from 2024 to 2026 to work under the supervision of Dr. Ervin Malakaj.
In their project, Dr. Garde will investigate how collective memory about the transgender past is generated in contemporary cultural productions like films, TV shows, texts, and museum exhibitions. The project explores how German history and German archives inform the (re)writings of the transgender past in these cultural productions and elaborates on their powerful role in constructing present trans identities, communities, and politics. You can read more on Dr. Garde’s work here.
Dr. Garde chose to come to UBC as a top-ranked university and prime institution for queer and trans German studies. They are excited to start their work with their new colleagues and students at CENES beginning in September 2024.
