Sa Whitley
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Mail code: 4308Campus: Tempe
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Sa Whitley’s research projects center black feminist and spatial critiques of finance capitalism and urban planning in the neoliberal era. Their current book manuscript examines the various ways that black queer transgender women in Baltimore, Maryland have negotiated placemaking and property relations; gentrification and dispossession; alongside kinship and financial subjectivity in the afterlife of the subprime foreclosure crisis.
Whitley is also an award-winning poet and contributor to the literary arts. They are the winner of the 2024 Indiana Review Poetry Prize and the runner up for both the 2024 Ninth Letter Literary Contest and the 2024 Palette Poetry Previously Published Poem Prize. Their recent poems appear in POETRY Magazine and several others are forthcoming in Paperbag and the aforementioned literary journals. Whitley is currently a Cave Canem Poetry Fellow and a former Poetry & the Senses Fellow with the Arts Research Center at University of California, Berkeley and the ASU Center for Imagination in the Borderlands (2023-24).
- PhD. Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
- MA. African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
- AB. English, Princeton University
Whitley, Sa. "We Call Them Bandos: Black Trans Fugitivity in Baltimore's Geographies of Foreclosure." Transgender Studies Quarterly (2022). 9 (2) 266-288. https://doi-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1215/23289252-9612949
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| WST 591 | Seminar |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| WST 601 | Critical Concepts of Gender |
| WST 380 | Race, Gender, and Class |
| WST 380 | Race, Gender, and Class |
| WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
| SST 604 | Sexuality Studies |
| WST 294 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| WST 792 | Research |
| WST 601 | Critical Concepts of Gender |
| WST 591 | Seminar |
| WST 591 | Seminar |
| WST 792 | Research |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| AFR 598 | Special Topics |
| WST 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| WST 691 | Seminar |