Dr. Harlan Weaver
GWSS Graduate Certificate Director/Associate Professor
Office: 003 Leasure Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research interests
My current research project, Trans Sciences, Trans Selves, joins disability justice and transgender studies in interrogating the racial, colonial, and, at times, liberatory logics of trans sciences, health, and care. My book, Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice, engages interspecies intersectionality through multispecies ethnography focused in pit bulls, animal rescue, and racialization.
Select Publications
Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice Feminist Technosciences series, ed. Banu Subramaniam and Rebecca Herzig, Washington University Press. March 2021. (hyperlink); introduction (hyperlink to academia.edu); introduction; interview
“A Love Letter to the Future (from the Surgical Team of the Trans Sciences Collective).” Trans*gender Studies Quarterly 7.4 (November 2020).
“Interspecies Intersectionalities.” Messy Eating, ed. Samantha King. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2019.
“Feminisms, Fuzzy Sciences, and Interspecies Intersectionality: The Promises and Perils of Contemporary Dog Training.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 3.1 (October 2017): 1-27.
“Animal Affect.” Gender: Animals ed. Juno Parreñas, Boston, MA: MacMillan/Cengage Learning (June 2017): 69-84.
“Interchanges.” Co-Authored with Myra Hird. Angelaki. 22.2 (May 2017): 217-232.
“Pit Bull Promises: Inhuman Intimacies and Queer Kinships in an Animal Shelter.” GLQ 21.2-3 (June 2015): 343-363.
“The Tracks of my Tears: Trans* Affects, Resonance, and Pit Bulls and Parolees.” Trans*gender Studies Quarterly 2.2 (May 2015): 345-352.
“Friction in the Interstices: Affect and Landscape in Stone Butch Blues.” Emotion, Space and Society. 12 (August 2014): 85-91.
“Trans Species.” Trans*gender Studies Quarterly. 1.1-2 (2014): 253-254.
“Becoming in Kind: Race, Gender, and Nation in Cultures of Dog Fighting and Dog Rescue.” American Quarterly 65.2 (September 2013): 689-709.
“Monster Trans: Diffracting Affect, Reading Rage.” Somatechnics. 3.2 (September 2013): 287-306. (Reprinted in Transgothic. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017)
Courses
Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies—GWSS 105
Transgender Studies, Transgender Politics—GWSS 335
Disability Justice and Gender—GWSS 375
Queer Studies, Histories, Concepts, and Politics—GWSS 325
Race/ Sex/ Science—GWSS 435
Interspecies Intersections—GWSS 300
Critical Concepts in GWSS—GWSS 810
Email for syllabi
Contact: harlanweaver@ksu.edu