Sarah Chant
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Women's & Gender Studies
My research explores the production of queer and trans futures and political imaginaries in the U.S. South, particularly through practices of affect and memory. An anthropologist by training, I’ve conducted research amongst drag performers, activists, archivists, and clergy in Alabama, looking at how trans and queer people use strategies of hope, humor, desire, and imagination to make space for themselves and their communities. I’m currently developing a project on the affective dimensions of contemporary and historical anti-trans and anti-queer legislation in the southeastern United States, and how these histories intersect and overlap with anti-Black and anti-immigrant legislative initiatives in the region. I teach courses in queer theory, feminist theory, and queer popular culture, and have previously taught courses at the intersection of affect theory and trans theory as well as queer and trans histories of the U.S. South. As a physics student turned anthropologist turned gender studies scholar, I am also always interested in thinking and learning about different conceptualizations of space and time across disciplinary boundaries.
Education
- B.A., New York University
- M.A., The New School
- Ph.D., The New School