Carter and Brunton co-edit collection of transgender narratives and scholarship

A new collection of transgender scholarship, narratives, and creative work edited by Kristi Carter and James Brunton is due out this month from Women's Press. TransNarratives: Scholarly and Creative Works on Transgender Experience presents essays, poems, stories, first-person narratives, and scholarly work by transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary writers. The aim of the collection—besides serving as a sourcebook for researchers and students—is to merge the academic with the creative, "actively deconstructing binaries wherever they begin to appear, whether with regard to gender, race, ability or sexuality."

Dr. Kristi Carter is the author of poetry collections Aria Viscera, Daughter Shaman Sings Blood Anthem, Red and Vast, and Cosmovore. She is a Department of English lecturer, as well as an alum; she holds a Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in creative writing (poetry) and a specialization in women's and gender studies. Her scholarly and poetic work examines the intersection of gender and intergenerational trauma in 20th-century poetics.

Dr. James Brunton, Assistant Professor of Practice, is a poet and scholar of critical theory and film studies. He is the author of the poetry collection Opera on TV, co-author of the poetry chapbook The Future is a Faint Song, and is currently working on a graphic novel/memoir of his own transgender experience called From the Neck Up. He is also an alum of the Department of English, and holds a Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in creative writing (poetry).