Susan Stryker
| Susan Stryker | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor, author, editor, filmmaker |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Ph.D., United States History B.A., Letters |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley University of Oklahoma |
| Subject |
Gender studies LGBT culture LGBT rights in the United States Women's studies |
| Notable works | The Transgender Studies Reader (2006) |
| Notable awards | San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Award |
| Website | |
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Susan O'Neal Stryker is an American professor, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. She is associate professor of Gender and Women's Studies, director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona. She is the author of several books about LGBT history and culture.
Stryker received a bachelor's degree in Letters from University of Oklahoma in 1983. She earned a Ph.D. in United States History at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992; the doctoral thesis she presented was Making Mormonism: A Critical and Historical Analysis of Cultural Formation.
Stryker is an associate professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, and is the director of the university's Institute for LGBT Studies. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Simon Fraser University. She is an openly lesbian trans woman who has produced a significant body of work about transgenderism and queer culture.
She came out as transgender and began to transition from a male gender presentation to female shortly after earning her doctorate. Her scholarly article "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix", published in 1994, was her first published academic article, and after trail-blazing Australian transgender academic Roberta Perkins who began publishing her research on female sex workers in the 1980s, one of the first articles ever published in a peer-reviewed academic journal by an openly transgender author.
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