Profiles in "Queer Studies" Expertise Area

  • Composer Temple looks for points of connection between things that aren't supposed to belong together, distorting and combining iconic sounds to create new meanings.
  • Acevedo's research focuses on queer young adult literature, pop culture pedagogies, (auto)ethnographical methodologies, and masculinity/machismo in Caribbean/Puerto Rican communities.
  • Dr. Mellissa Linton is an Assistant Professor at ASU's School of Social Transformation, core faculty in Women and Gender Studies, and coordinates the LGBT Studies Certificate.
  • T. Chester, PhD (they/them) is a Performance Studies scholar specializing in gender, sexuality, and religion in the Black diaspora.
  • Rowan "Ro" Greywolf Moore (they/them, Sicangu Lakota) is a Sociology PhD Candidate. Their dissertation focuses on film tropes of Indigenous peoples as pseudo-historical narratives to maintain colonial domination.