Dr. Dylan McCarthy Blackston
About
Education
PhD in Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona
MA in Women’s Studies, Georgia State UniversityBFA in Photography with a minor in Women’s Studies, University of Georgia
Research and Teaching Areas
- Trans Theory; Trans Ecologies; Feminist Studies; Critical Life and Animal Studies; Sexuality Studies; Queer Theory; Visual Culture Studies
Recent and Upcoming Courses
- Gendered Ecologies: Nature, Science, Empire
- Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Trans Studies
- Queer and Trans Visual Cultures
- Feminist Research Methodologies
- Transnational Feminisms
- “Transing Difference,” forthcoming, spring 2025. Introduction to Feminist Studies: Notes from the field, co-edited by Hemangini Gupta, Kelly Sharron, Carly Thomsen, and Abraham Weil. New York: Routledge.
- “Carrying Trans Forward: On Transgender, Gestation, and Trans*plantation,” fall 2023. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 10 (3-4).
- “Introduction: Transgender Studies Remixed.” 2022. In The Transgender Studies Reader Remix, co-edited by Dylan McCarthy Blackston and Susan Stryker.
- To hear more about the book, listen to coeditors Stryker and Blackston in conversation with Eric LeMay: https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-transgender-studies-reader-remix
- “Monkey Business: Trans*, Animacy, and the Boundaries of Kind,” 2021. Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Animal and Trans* Studies, co-edited by Eliza Steinbock, Anthony Wagner, and Marianna Szczygielska. Routledge: 119–133. [Originally published 2017 in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 22 (2), 119–133. Special issue “Tranimacies: Intimate Links between Animal and Trans* Studies,” guest co-edited by Eliza Steinbock, Anthony Wagner, and Marianna Szczygielska.]”
Editorial Work and Awardsx
Trans Theory Fellow, Trans Studies at the Commons, University of Kansas (2024-2025)
General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Editorial Board, “Transgender Theory” book series, Bloomsbury
Bio
Dr. Dylan McCarthy Blackston’s training, research, and teaching are in the areas of trans studies, trans ecologies, feminist studies, critical life and animal studies, sexuality studies, queer theory, and visual culture studies. He is co-editor of the recently published collection, The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (Routledge 2022) and a General Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke U Press). He is currently working on his first monograph, Trans Relations: How Capital Makes and Changes Kinds, which examines the socio-cultural presence of three figures—the dolphin, the ape, and the pig—to make evident how we define and redefine life and its value(s) at moments of political and social transition. The book traces the links between transnational political economies of LGBTQ philanthropy, regenerative medicine, and trans-species embodiments.
