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Lily Wolf

Lily Wolf against a concrete wall

Lily Wolf

Ph.D. Candidate
she/her

wolf.1015@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Trans and Queer Studies
  • Racialization
  • Visual Studies

Education

  • M.A. The Ohio State University, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • B.A. New York University, Anthropology

I am a scholar of queer and trans art, media, and culture. My current motivating concern is trans feminine visual enclosure; what I describe as an isolating regime of visuality that narrows trans femininity into fixed racialized figurations of abjected excess – prostitute, monster, trickster, depressed dysphoric, plasticized medical marvel. My dissertation “Trans Femme Aesthetics: Gestural Practices of Images and their Excess” argues that trans women use gesture in contemporary photography, film, painting, and sculpture to develop novel significations of trans femininity and differently embed themselves in relations of power.