Download CFP for “Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the

CFP for “Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment”
Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book “Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on
the Environment,” due by May 15, 2016. This volume will explore the intersection between
transgender studies and ecology, with contributions from an international group of scholars
representing a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including but not
limited to such fields as gender studies, environmental studies, literary criticism, history,
philosophy, religious studies, women’s studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology,
economics, geography, and political science.
Interested authors should send a 300-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a
previously published chapter or article to [email protected] by May 15, 2016. First drafts of full
chapters (8,000 words) are due by September 1, 2016, and final versions are due November 1,
2016. Both transgender and cisgender contributors are welcome. Preference will be given to
authors who have completed their doctorates. Only previously unpublished works will be
considered.
Confirmed contributors include:
Foreword
Susan Stryker, Ph.D., University of Arizona, USA
Preface
Greta Gaard, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin – River Falls, USA
“‘The Bog is in Me’: Transecology and The Danish Girl”
Elizabeth Parker, Ph.D., Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
“Posthuman Intimacy in Trans Cinema”
Wibke Straube, Ph.D., Karlstad University, Sweden
“Theorizing Transgender and Transhuman Possibilities: Empathy and Ecology in Élisabeth
Vonarburg’s Le Silence de la Cité”
Anna Bedford, Ph.D., St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA
“Transsexual/Transgender Survivors of Eco-apocalypse: New Perspectives on Angela Carter’s
The Passion of New Eve”
Julia Tofantšuk, Ph.D., Tallinn University, Estonia
“Ominous Foreboding: Transsexual Eco-prophecies in Clark’s (Bekederemo’s) ‘Ivbie’ and
Okara’s The Fisherman’s Invocation”
Idom T. Inyabri, Ph.D., University of Calabar, Nigeria
“Yu-hong Chen’s ‘In-between’ Ecopoetics and Transgender Studies”
Peter I-min Huang, Ph.D., Tamkang University, Taiwan
“Transgender Discourse in Ancient Mythology and Religious Texts: How Nature Influenced
Representation”
Purbita Chowdhury, Jadavpur University, India and Ashish Kumar Ghosh, Ph.D., Centre for
Environment and Development, India
“Complimenting Contradictions of Gender Dualism: A Study on the Geopolitics of Binary
Gender Ecology in Hinduism”
Swapna Gopinath, Ph.D., University of Kerala, India, Sony Jalarajan Raj, Ph.D., MacEwan
University, Canada, and Soumya Jose, Ph.D., VIT University, India
“Gendercrossing at the Frontier: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Transgender Memoirs in the
Alborz Mountains”
Mat Fournier, Ph.D., Ithaca College, USA
“Trans-Appalachia: Roadmap to an Unromantic Relationship with the Mountains”
Izzy Broomfield, Stay Together Appalachian Youth (STAY), USA and Theresa L. Burriss,
Ph.D., Radford University, USA
“Sexuate Ecologies and the Landmarking of Transgender Cultural Heritage”
Nicole Anae, Ph.D., Central Queensland University, Australia
“Transgender: An Expanded View of the Ecological Self”
Gail Grossman Freyne, LL.B., Ph.D., The Family Therapy & Counselling Centre, Australia
“Cut Sex: TransXenoEstroGenesis”
Eva Hayward, Ph.D. and Adela C. Licona, Ph.D., University of Arizona, USA
“Theorizing Trans-species Affects through Ecological Science Practice”
Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Ph.D., Alpen-Adria Universitaet, Graz, Austria and University of
California, Santa Cruz, USA
The relationship between gender and the environment has been studied extensively, with much
attention given to the problems of relying on rigid dualities such as male/female and
nature/culture. This volume seeks to provide novel insights into ecological and environmental
issues by drawing on specifically transgender perspectives. Proposals that explicitly critique
cisnormativity and cissexism are especially welcome. For purposes of this volume, the meaning
of transgender will follow GLAAD’s definition: “Transgender is a term used to describe people
whose gender identity differs from the sex the doctor marked on their birth certificate. Gender
identity is a person's internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or someone outside of
that gender binary). For transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth and their own
internal gender identity do not match.”
The editor of “Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment,” Douglas Vakoch,
is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as well as
general editor of Lexington Books’ Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series. Vakoch’s earlier
edited books include “Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and
Discourse” (2011), “Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, and Literature” (2012), and
(with Fernando Castrillón) “Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment: The
Experience of Nature” (2014).