Susan Stryker

Susan Stryker
At Trans March San Francisco, June 2017
BornSusan O'Neil Stryker
1961 (age 62–63)
Occupation
  • Professor
  • author
  • editor
  • filmmaker
  • historian
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Oklahoma (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
SubjectGender studies
LGBT culture
LGBT rights in the United States
Women's studies
Notable worksThe Transgender Studies Reader (2006)
Notable awardsLambda Literary Award[1]
San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Award[2]
Website
www.susanstryker.net/home

Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961), best known as Susan Stryker,[3] is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and sexuality and trans realities. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona. Stryker is the author of several books and a founding figure of transgender studies as well as a leading scholar of transgender history.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Northwest News: Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture at the Evergreen State College". Seattle Gay News. Vol. 37, no. 6. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  2. ^ Szymanski, Zak (14 September 2006). "Friends set up defense fund for author". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Meet the FAC - The Institute for LGBT Studies is pleased to introduce FAC member, Professor Susan Stryker". University of Arizona LGBT Studies.
  4. ^ Wark, McKenzie, ed. (2024). When Monsters Speak. A Susan Stryker Reader. Duke University Press.
  5. ^ Livia, Anna (1995). Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender. University of California, Berkeley. p. 215.