Dr. Ervin Malakaj, Associate Professor of German Studies and CENES Department Head, along with his co-lead Dr. Jasbir Puar, Distinguished Arts Professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, secured a competitive Grant for Catalyzing Research Clusters in the amount of $100,000 for a project titled, “Centre for Queer and Trans Cultural Praxis.”
The expansion of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation and the resurgence of reactionary politics have rendered queer and trans life increasingly precarious. Yet, queer and trans artists continue to generate aesthetic, embodied, and narrative practices to both resist contemporary forms of state violence, and insist on imagining and building alternative modes of relation, belonging, and futurity.
This research cluster brings together faculty, graduate students, and community-based artists working across the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts to center these practices as more than just artistic outputs, to study them as methods of thought, forms of collective learning, and infrastructures of survival.
