Jules Gill-Peterson 526 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone: 412-624-4114 | Email: [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
2020-present Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh Secondary Appointment in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
2015-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh Secondary Appointment in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
EDUCATION
2015 Ph.D., American Studies, Rutgers University Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies
2010 B.A., History, University of Ottawa
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2018 Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press). Winner, Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction (2019) Winner, Children’s Literature Association Book Award (2020) Special issue of The Rambling on Histories of the Transgender Child, November 2019 (https://the-rambling.com/category/issue-six/)
In-progress “Gender Underground: A History of Trans DIY.”
Peer Reviewed Articles
2019 With Gabby Benavente. “The Promise of Trans Critique: Susan Stryker’s Queer Theory.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1: 23-28.
2018 “Trans of Color Critique Before Transsexuality.” Transgender Studies Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 4: 606-620.
2017 “Implanting Plasticity into Sex and Trans/Gender: Animal and Child Metaphors in the History of Endocrinology.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Vol. 22, No. 2: 47-60.
2015 “Sexting Girls: Technological Sovereignty and the Digital.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Vol. 25, No. 2: 143-156.
2015 “The Value of the Future: The Child as Human Capital and the Neoliberal Labor of Race.” Women’s Studies Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 1-2: 181-196.
2014 “The Technical Capacities of the Body: Assembling Race, Technology and Transgender.” Transgender Studies Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3: 402-418.
2013 “Haunting the Queer Spaces of AIDS: Remembering ACT UP/NY and an Ethics for an Endemic.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3: 279-300.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming With Ms. Bob Davis. “Louise Lawrence (1912-1976).” In Dallas Denny, Carolyn Wolf-Gould, and Kyan Lynch, eds., From Margins to Mainstream: A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States (SUNY Press, 2022).
Forthcoming “Gender.” In Aren Aizura et al., eds., Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU Press, 2021)
Forthcoming “Caring for Trans Kids, Transnationally; Or, Against ‘Gender Critical’ Moms.” In Emma Heaney, ed., Feminism Against Cisness (Duke University Press, 2021).
Forthcoming “When is Trans Literature? Or, Life Inside a Figure” In Benjamin Kahan, ed., The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (Cambridge University Press 2021).
Forthcoming “On the Possibility of Affirmative Health Care for Transgender Children.” In Martin Halliwell and Sophie A. Jones, eds., The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health (Edinburgh University Press, 2021).
Forthcoming “Trans DIY” and “Youth and Teens of Color.” In, Genny Beemyn and Abbie Goldberg, eds., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies (SAGE, 2021).
Forthcoming “Depathologizing Trans Childhood: A Trans of Color Critique.” In Aimee Medeiros, Elena Conis, and Sandra Eder, eds. Pink and Blue: The Gendered Culture of Pediatrics (Rutgers University Press, 2020).
Forthcoming “The Cultivation of Queer and Trans Childhood: Eugenic Logics of Genetic and Endocrine Science.” In Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber, eds., The Queerness of Childhood: Essays From the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
2016 “Growing up Trans in the 1960s and the 2010s.” In Markus Bohlmann, ed., Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings (Lexington Books), 213-230.
2016 “Neurofeminism: An Eco-Pharmacology of Childhood ADHD.” In Victoria Pitts-Taylor, ed., Mattering: Feminism, Science and Materialism (NYU Press), 188-203.
Edited Collections
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2020 With Kyla Schuller. “The Biopolitics of Plasticity.” A special Issue of Social Text, Vol. 38, No. 2.
2016 With Kathryn Bond Stockton and Rebekah Sheldon. “The Child Now.” A special Issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4.
Public Scholarship
2019 “On Wanting Trans Women and Children (For Better or For Worse).” The Rambling, Special issue on Histories of the Transgender Child, November 26 (https://the- rambling.com/2019/11/26/issue6-gill-peterson/).
2019 “Feeling Like a Bad Trans Object.” Post 45 Contemporaries, December 9, 2019, http://post45.research.yale.edu/2019/12/feeling-like-a-bad-trans-object/.
ACADEMIC HONORS
Fellowships
2018-2019 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship
2018-2019 Senior Fellowship, Center for Humanities and Information, Pennsylvania State University (Declined)
2018 University-Based Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Chair in Transgender Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
2017-2018 Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Faculty Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
2015 John Money Fellowship, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana
2014-2015 Rutgers Graduate School-Newark Dissertation Fellowship
2012-2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship
2012-2013 Rutgers Institute for Research on Women (IRW) Seminar Fellowship, Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities
Grants and Awards
2020 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh
2020 Children’s Literature Association Book Award
Sept 2020 3 2019 Hewlett International Grant, University of Pittsburgh
2019 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction
2019 Provost’s Special Initiative to Promote Scholarly Activities in the Humanities Award, University of Pittsburgh
2018 Provost’s Special Initiative to Promote Scholarly Activities in the Humanities Award, University of Pittsburgh
2018 Making Advances Workshop Award: Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Images, University of Pittsburgh
2018 Type I Third Term Research Award, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
2017-2018 Faculty Research and Scholarship Program Award, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (Principle Investigator)
2017-2018 Humanities Center Collaborative Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh (Principle Investigator)
2017-2018 Provost’s Year of Healthy U Grant (x2), University of Pittsburgh
2017-2018 Office of Diversity and Inclusion Mini Grant, University of Pittsburgh
2017 Provost’s Special Initiative to Promote Scholarly Activities in the Humanities Award, University of Pittsburgh
2016 Type I Third Term Research Award, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
2014 Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Bruns Essay Prize
2014 American Studies Association Annette K. Baxter Grant
2012-2013 Rutgers-Newark Women’s and Gender Studies Research Grant
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
2020 “Symposia In Trans Method: Becoming // Trans.” Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, September.
Sept 2020 4 2020 “The TERF Industrial Complex.” Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, August. 2020 “The Evidence of Trans Experience: History After Transsexuality.” The Sexualities Project at Northwestern Annual Workshop, Northwestern University [Postponed due to COVID].
2020 “The Evidence of Trans Experience: History After Transsexuality.” Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University, [Postponed due to COVID].
2020 “Gender Self-Determination and Trans of Color Critique.” Sexual Rights and Wrongs, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, [Postponed due to COVID].
2019 “The Desire for Trans History.” Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Chicago, December.
2019 Plenary address. “Notes on a History and Politics of Wanting Trans Children.” 2019 Humanities and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Conference. William Paterson University, New Jersey, October.
2019 Plenary address. “On Wanting in the Trans Archive: A Shameful Love Story.” Queer Youth Curating Queer History. University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, October.
2019 Plenary address. “Transition/Transmutation.” Trans+Sex: Rethinking Sex/Gender in Trans Studies Symposium. University of Arizona, Tucson, September.
2019 Keynote address. “Bringing Trans History Into the Clinic.” Becoming a Trans- Knowledgeable Provider. UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, August.
2019 Keynote address. “Depathologizing Trans Childhood: Racial Justice and the History of Gender.” Youngsters 2.0: On the Cultures of Children and Youth, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, May.
2019 “The Practice and the Politics of the Trans Archive.” Difference and Media Project Teach- In, Bard College, May.
2019 “Depathologizing Trans Childhood: Racial Justice and the History of Plasticity.” Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, April.
2019 “Finding Trans Kids in the Archive: Depathologizing History.” Gender and Women’s Studies Program, Pomona College, April.
2019 “Transgender Kids Are Not New: History as a Tool For Justice.” Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, January. Methods Workshop: Histories of the Transgender Child. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, January.
Sept 2020 5 2019 “Depathologizing Trans Childhood: A Trans of Color Critique of Gender.” School of Social Work, University of Victoria, Canada, January.
2019 “Against Transsexuality: Spirituality as Trans-Feminine Practice in the 1950s.” Chair in Transgender Studies, University of Victoria, Canada, January.
2018 “Trans Childhood Before Transsexuality, or Medicine’s Case Against the Medical Model.” Department of History, Yale University, December.
2018 “Trans of Color Studies and the Racial Plasticity of Gender.” Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, December.
2018 “The Queerness of Trans Childhood? On Trans Boyhood in the 1970s.” Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, Toronto, November.
2018 “The Libel of Being ‘New’: Trans Children’s Letters to Doctors in the 1960s.” Department of Education, York University, Toronto, November.
2018 “The Intersex and Trans Invention of Gender: On Children’s Self-Determination.” Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, October.
2018 Seminar on Histories of the Transgender Child. Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University, Durham, October.
2018 “Transgender Boyhood in the 1970s: Race, Medicine, and the Generational Border Wars.” Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, McGill University, Montreal, March. Seminar: “Against a Secular Transgender: The Enchanted Science of 1950s Trans DIY.” IGSF, McGill University, Montreal March.
2017 Plenary Address, “Transgender Boyhood and the Affectivity of Gender in the 1970s.” Colloquium on Masculinity and Affect, University of Pittsburgh, April.
2015 Plenary Address, “Transgender Children in the 1960s: Sex, Race, and Organic Form.” Child Matters: The 2015 Cultural Studies Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, October.
Selected Conference Presentations
2020 “Humanizing the Young Trans Body.” Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, January.
2019 “Sex and Gender as Racial Projects.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, November. “Some Genre Work in Trans Archives”; “The Secret History of Cis: Towards and Intersex and Trans Epistemology of Gender”; and “Notes on a History and Politics of Wanting Trans Children.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November.
Sept 2020 6 Respondent, “Author Meets Critic Session: Histories of the Transgender Child.” Social Science and History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November.
2018 “Response to Susan Squier’s Epigenetic Landscapes.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Meeting, Toronto, November. “A Trans Underground: Hiding in Plain Sight in the 1950s.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November. “How to Bring Your Kids Up Trans: The Racialization of Care.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November. “Greer Lankton’s Living Room; or, the Occulted of Trans History.” Tuning Speculation VI, Indiana University-Bloomington, October. “The Intimate Trans Twentieth Century: Historiography and Childhood in Transparent.” Northeast Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, April. “Against a Secular Transgender: The Enchanted Science of 1950s Trans DIY.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, University of Los Angeles, March. “Transgender Boyhood in the 1970s: Masculinity, Blackness, and the Generational Border Wars.” Moving Trans History Forward 2018, University of Victoria, Canada, March. “Trans of Color Critique Before Transsexuality.” Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting, New York City, January.
2017 “Trans of Color Critique Before Transsexuality.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November. “Racial Plasticity and the Formlessness of Refusal: HeLa Cells and Synthetic Hormones at the Limit.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November. With Jessica Lanay Moore. “Black Sun: The Melancholic Drive in Historical Fiction and Interrogating the Archive.” The Kristeva Circle Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, October. “On the Invisibility of Race in the Endocrine System; or the Impossibility of Trans of Color Critique.” Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January. “Foucault and Queer of Color Critique.” Panel organized for the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January.
2016 “How to Grow a Biological Metaphor: The Child as Figure and Form.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November. “Gender and the Child: A Roundtable of Queer Method.” Panel organized for the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program, Pittsburgh, October. “On Growing Fat or Feminine: A Trans Girl Writes in the 1960s.” Trans* Studies: An International Transdisciplinary Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, September. “The Body as a Problem of Form.” Panel organized for Doing the Body in the 21st Century, University of Pittsburgh, April. “The Child’s Body and the Invention of Gender in the Mid Twentieth Century.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Harvard University, March. “Queer, Trans, Feminist and Critical Race Perspectives on the Cultural Politics of Childhood.” Seminar organized for the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Harvard University, March. “Biological Animation as Childish Form.” Children’s Literature Association Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, June.
Sept 2020 7 “Life, Death, and Re-Animation.” Panel organized for the Children’s Literature Association Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, June.
2015 “Flesh, or Beside Biopolitics: A Trans of Color Speculation on Organic Form.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Meeting, Rice University, Houston, November. “Tissue Culture: Eugenics and the Child as Organic Form.” Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Meeting, Rice University, Houston, November. “Flesh, or Organic Form: On Trans of Color Critique.” Affect Theory Worlding/Tensions/Futures, Millserville University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October. Conference Delegate. LGBTQ Scholars of Color Conference, CUNY John Jay College, April. “Giving Form to the Human: Sex, Eugenics, and the Transgender Child.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, March. “Childish Forms.” Seminar organized for the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, March. “The Invention of the Transgender Child: The Matter of Sex and the ‘inherited memory of the race.’”2015 Neil Postman Conference, New York University, March. Human Futures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April.
TEACHING
University of Pittsburgh, Department of English
Graduate: ENGLIT2064 The Body Now: Form, Matter, Text ENGIT2261 Queer Woman of Color Radicalism ENGLIT3902 Directed Study: Feminist Science Studies ENGLIT3902 Directed Study: Poverty and Homelessness in Childhood Studies
Undergraduate: ENGLIT0560 Children and Culture ENGLIT0630 Sexuality and Representation ENGLIT0655 Representing Adolescence ENGLIT 0670 Queer and Transgender Literature ENGLIT1645 The Child Sciences ENGLIT1090 Literature, Medicine, and Sexology ENGLIT1900 The Archive
University of Pittsburgh, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program
Graduate: GSWS2240 Gender and the Child GSWS2240 Transgender Studies
Undergraduate Advising
Sept 2020 8 2018-2019 Honors BPhil Thesis Committee Member, Kate Eldridge. “We Know Who We Are: Centering Queer and Trans Youth Narratives in the Move Towards Affirmative Healthcare” 2017-2018 Faculty Mentor, Brackenridge Fellowship, Tonoya Sengupta Faculty Sponsor, Archival Scholars Research Award Program, Kate Eldridge 2016-2019 Faculty Advisor, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Major, Kate Eldridge 2016 Faculty Sponsor, Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship, Julia Gitelman
GRADUATE ADVISING
Doctoral Committees, Department of English
Sam B. Corfman (Co-Chair), “All Trans People Are Artists, All Artists Are Poets: A Dissertation on Trans Writers and Writing” Jordan Bernsmeier (Co-Chair), “From Lesbian Hitchcock to Aluminum Lesbians: Classical Hollywood Cinema and the Legacy of Lesbian Cultural Influence” Kimberly Hoover, “What Are We Integrating? Grounding Theory in Integrative Medicine.” Mary Gryctko, “Eternal Innocence: The Victorian Cult of the Dead Child” Marlee Furhmann, “The Victorian Ocean” Ariana Brazier, “‘Yea. I’m in my hood. No strap’: Black Child Play as Practice and Community Sustenance”
MA Theses
Cedar Block, “Without Life But Not Hope: Trans Zombie Optimism in Zombie Land Saga” (completed, April 2020)
MFA Manuscript Committees
Jessica Lanay Moore, “Amphibian” (completed, August 2019)
Graduate Advising in Other Departments
Doctoral Committee, Alvin Primak (Communication), “Figuring the Innocent Child: Tropology and Narrative in American Media Law” Doctoral Committee, Sean Nonnemacher (Linguistics), “Figurations, Orientations, and Stylizations: Mapping the Contours of Language, Childhood, and Gender/Sexuality in the Contemporary U.S.” MA Thesis (Bioethics), Jessica Benham, “Suffer the Little Children: The Ethics of Extended Childhood of Disabled Adults in Pennsylvania” (completed, July 2019)
SERVICE
University of Pittsburgh, Department of English
2019-2020 Diversity Committee (Chair) Graduate Procedures Committee 2018 Ad-Hoc Committee on Diversity
Sept 2020 9 2016-2017 Graduate Admissions Committee Harassment Officer Eric Clarke Dissertation Prize Committee (Chair) Children’s Literature and Childhood Studies Student Prize Committee 2016 Graduate Procedures Committee: Fellowship Committee 2015-2016 Graduate Placement Committee
University of Pittsburgh, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program
2016-present Steering Committee 2019-2020 Research Theme Committee 2017-2018 Sexuality Studies Minor Committee 2017-2018 “Gender and Childhood” Theme Year (Chair) 2016-2018 Research and Programming Committee
Service to the University
2019-present University of Pittsburgh Transgender Working Group 2017-present Transgender Working Group, Subcommittee on Education in the Classroom
Service to the Profession
2020-2024 General Editor, Transgender Studies Quarterly Editorial Board Childhood Studies Series, Rutgers University Press Manuscript review University of Minnesota Press; Oxford University Press; University of Chicago Press; Skinner Press; Canadian Scholars Women’s Press; Article referee Transgender Studies Quarterly; GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory; Theory and Event; NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies; Hypatia; Lateral 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize Committee 2016-2017 Modern Languages Association GL/Q Caucus Michael Lynch Service Award Committee
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Studies Association Modern Languages Association Society for Literature, Science and the Arts American Comparative Literature Association National Women’s Studies Association
LANGUAGES
English, French, Spanish, Punjabi
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