Professor Dr. Eric Stanley

Biography

Eric Stanley is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research holding the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity at the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory. Stanley's manuscript, 'Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism in Trans/Queer Ungovernable' (Duke 2021), argues that racialized anti-trans and queer violence is a foundational aberration of Western modernity. The work was awarded the Sylvia Rivera Award from CLAGS for Transgender Studies. He is actively engaged in research on non-sovereignty, radical hospitality, and the ephemeral nature of trans and queer insurgent organizing from the 1970s and 1980s, with a new project focusing on the architectures of attack concerning trans sociality in the Bay Area. Stanley has edited anthologies like 'Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production Politics of Visibility' (MIT Press, 2017), which won the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans Gender-Variant Literature. He has collaborated with Nat Smith on the book 'Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex' and directed films like 'Criminal Queers' (2019) and 'Homotopia' (2008).

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