
Maxe Crandall
Academic Prog Prof 1, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/people/maxec
Bio
Maxe Crandall is Lecturer and Interim Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. Maxe works in the intersections of transgender studies and experimental poetics and performance. His new book about AIDS archives and intergenerational memory The Nancy Reagan Collection (Futurepoem) was on the New York Public Library’s Best 100 Books of 2020 & LitHub’s 65 Favorite Books of 2020.
He is a poet, playwright, and director; author of the chapbooks Emoji for Cher Heart (belladonna*, 2015) and Together Men Make Paradigms (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2014); and the founder of the theater company Beautiful Moments in Popular Culture, which most recently materialized as a poets theater series at The Stud in San Francisco. His work has been anthologized in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat 2020), The Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press 2017), and Troubling the Line (Nightboat Books 2013). Maxe has received fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry Project, SFMOMA Open Space, and a Eureka Commission from Onassis USA.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Maxe developed and co-directed the program Readings in Gender and Sexuality in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University (2012-2015). Previous academic appointments include Assistant Professor in English at Temple University (2010-2012), and the Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Georgia Institute of Technology (2007-2010). Maxe holds a PhD in English and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Honors & Awards
-
Eureka Commission, Onassis USA (2020)
-
Playwriting Fellowship, Lambda Literary Foundation (2017)
-
Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, The Poetry Project (2014)
-
Emerging Poets Fellowship, Poets House (2014)
2020-21 Courses
- Enacting Community Liberation: Women's Community Center
FEMGEN 108A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199A (Aut) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199C (Spr) - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
AMSTUD 107, FEMGEN 101, TAPS 108 (Aut) - Junior Seminar and Practicum
FEMGEN 104A (Aut) - Senior Seminar and Practicum
FEMGEN 104B (Aut) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Honors Work
FEMGEN 105 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Honors Work
-
Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Body Politics
FEMGEN 135 (Spr) - College Culture & Masculinity
FEMGEN 107M (Win) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199B (Win) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199C (Spr) - Intersectional Feminism
FEMGEN 132 (Spr) - Intro to Queer Studies
FEMGEN 121 (Win) - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
AMSTUD 107, CSRE 108, FEMGEN 101, TAPS 108 (Aut) - Transgender Performance and Performativity
FEMGEN 133, TAPS 133T (Aut)
2018-19 Courses
- Beauty and Power
FEMGEN 137 (Aut) - Momcore, Me Too, and Hook-Ups: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Politics and Practice
FEMGEN 107P (Win) - Queer Music
FEMGEN 98 (Spr) - The Politics of Epidemics
FEMGEN 146 (Win) - Transgender Studies
FEMGEN 113, FEMGEN 213 (Spr) - Transnational Sexualities
FEMGEN 136 (Aut)
2017-18 Courses
- Body Politics
FEMGEN 135 (Spr) - Intersectional Feminism
FEMGEN 132 (Win) - Introduction to Queer Theory
FEMGEN 131 (Aut) - Sisterhood, Brotherhood, & Gender Identity: The Histories, Stories, and Constructs of Greek Life
FEMGEN 107G (Aut) - Transgender Performance and Performativity
FEMGEN 133 (Spr)
- Body Politics
All Publications
-
PolySensorium Tells Your Fortune An Action Art Object
TSQ-TRANSGENDER STUDIES QUARTERLY
2018; 5 (1): 143–47
View details for DOI 10.1215/23289252-4291842
View details for Web of Science ID 000430184700010
-
Moving Transgender Histories: Sean Dorsey's Trans Archival Practice
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
2015; 2 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1215/23289252-3151493