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C. Libby

Libby is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. In their current book project, Engendering Feeling: Religious Affect, Transphobia, and Historicity,Libby uses medieval religious texts to explore the intersections of religion, embodiment, and affect through the lens of trans studies. You can find their work in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Literature Compass.

Essays

Desiring Possibility: Trans Figuration, “As If,” and the Holy Fool

What futures are possible if Largier’s imaginative vision of transformative practice is embraced? Against the stagnating rehearsal of sedimented forms of knowledge production and the force of familiar affective patterns, Largier’s figures offer possibilities as infinite as the bodies they represent.