The following details the schedule of texts that participants at the Lexicon Project seminars gathered to discuss during Autumn and Winter quarter in the academic year 2020-2021. Further resources can be found at Things Transform run by Dr. M. W. Bychowski.
Friday October 23, 2020:
Dorothy Kim and M. W. Bychowski. “Visions of Medieval Trans Feminism: An Introduction.” Medieval Feminist Forum 55. 1 (2019) : 6-41.
Simone Chess, Colby Gordon and Will Fisher. “Introduction: Early Modern Trans Studies.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 19. 4 (2019): 1-25.
Leah DeVun and Zeb Tortorici. “Trans, Time and History.” TSQ 5 (2018): 518-39. [optional]
Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura. The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (Routledge, 2013). [optional]
“Trans and Genderqueer Studies Terminology, Language and Usage Guide,” from Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt. eds. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming 2020). [optional]
Friday November 6, 2020:
Leslie Feinberg. “‘Holy War’ against Trans People,” in Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (Beacon Press, 2007),67–73. [optional]
Gabrielle M. W. Bychowski. “Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages?” [optional]
Kittredge Cherry, “Saint Wilgefortis: Holy bearded woman fascinates for centuries” [optional]
Friday December 4, 2020:
Theophylact of Ohrid, Defense of Eunuchs, trans. by Felix Szabo.
Jules Gleeson, “The Byzantine Eunuch: Pre-capitalist Gender Category, ‘Tributary’ Modal Contradiction, and a Test for Materialist Feminism” in Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today: Essential Writings on Intersectionality, Labour and Ecofeminism, ed. by Khayaar Fakier, Diana Mulinari and Nora Rathzel (Zed Books, 2020), 70-87.
Shaun Tougher, “Byzantine Court Eunuchs and the Macdeonian Dynasty (867-1056): Family, Power and Gender,” in Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World, ed. by Almut Hofert, Matthew M. Mesley and Serena Tolino (Routledge, 2018), 229-245.
Margaret Mullet, “Theophylact of Ochrid’s In Defense of Eunuchs,” in Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond, ed. by Shaun Tougher (Classical Press of Wales, 2002), 177-198. [optional]
Kathryn M. Ringrose, “Living in the Shadows: Eunuchs and Gender in Byzantium,” in Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History (Zone Books, 1993), 85-109. [optional]
Thursday January 14, 2021
Jessica A. Boon, Associate Professor of Medieval/Early Modern Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, will discuss her draft paper “A Bigender Christ in a (Dis)abled Body: The Visionary Sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534).”
Juana de la Cruz, “Sermon 1: Incarnation,” in Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481-1534: Visionary Sermons, ed. by Jessica A. Boon and Roland E. Surtz, trans. by Ronald E. Surtz and Nora Weinerth (Iter Academic Press, 2016), 37-65.
Jessica A. Boon, “At the Limits of (Trans)Gender: Jesus, Mary, and the Angels in the Visionary Sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534),” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 48.2 (2018): 261-300.
Friday January 29,2021
Selections from the Roman de Silence, ed. and trans. by Sarah Roche-Mahdi, in Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance (East Lansing, 1992).
Selections from Tristan de Nanteuil, trans. by Jacqueline Victor.
Blake Gutt, “Transgender Genealogy in Tristan de Nanteuil,” Exemplaria 30.2 (2018): 129-146.
Friday February 19, 2021
David Lorenzo Boyd and Ruth Mazo Karras, “The Interrogation of a Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London,” GLQ 1 (1995): 459-465.
Ruth Mazo Karras and Tom Linkinen, “John/Eleanor Rykener Revisted,” in Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns, ed. by Laine E. Doggett and Daniel E. O’Sullivan (Suffolk, England, 2016), 112-121.
Emma Heaney, “Materialist Trans Feminism against Queer Theory,” in The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory and the Trans Feminine Allegory (Evanston, 2017), 253-297.
Gabby Benavente and Julian Gill-Peterson, “The Promise of Trans Critique: Susan Stryker’s Queer Theory,” GLQ 25.1 (2019): 23-28.