UCSB English’s Early Modern Center with collaboration with the Disability Studies Initiative presents Dr. Simone Chess (Wayne State University) on Assistive Technologies and Erotic Adaptation: Queer Disability in the Renaissance.

Simone Chess is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit [and a 2008 UCSB PhD!]. She is the author of Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations (Routledge, 2016) and coeditor, with Colby Gordon and Will Fisher, of a special issue on “Early Modern Trans Studies” for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Working with UCSB”s EBBA, Simone recently worked with Wayne State grad students to build the Warrior Women Project, a database of 113 ballads where characters assigned-female-at-birth consider or actually do pass as male soldiers. Chess is currently working on two new book projects, one on Shakespeare and trans culture for the Routledge “Spotlight on Shakespeare” series and another focused on early modern disability, queerness, and adaptive technologies.

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Contact Anita Raychawdhuri, EMC Fellow at araychawdhuri@ucbs.edu or emcfellow@gmail.com for more information or questions.