
Maxe Crandall
Associate Director, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/people/maxec
Bio
Maxe Crandall is Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. Maxe works at the intersections of transgender studies and experimental poetics and performance. His performance novel about AIDS archives and intergenerational memory The Nancy Reagan Collection (Futurepoem) was on the New York Public Library’s Best 10 Poetry Books of 2020, LitHub’s 65 Favorite Books of 2020, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry.
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 existed, prior to the pandemic, as a poets theater series at The Stud in San Francisco. He has presented plays at venues including Dixon Place, Joe Goode Annex, The Leather Archives & Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. His work is 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 MacDowell, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry Project, Poets House, SFMOMA Open Space, and a Eureka Commission from Onassis USA.
Honors & Awards
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Fellowship, MacDowell (2023)
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Eureka Commission, Onassis USA (2020)
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Playwriting Fellowship, Lambda Literary Foundation (2017)
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Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship, The Poetry Project (2014)
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Emerging Poets Fellowship, Poets House (2014)
2022-23 Courses
- Enacting Community Liberation: Women's Community Center
FEMGEN 108A (Win, Spr) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199A (Aut) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199B (Win) - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
CSRE 108, FEMGEN 101 (Win) - Junior Seminar and Practicum
FEMGEN 104A (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Seminar and Practicum
FEMGEN 104B (Aut) -
Independent Studies (3)
- Directed Reading
FEMGEN 195 (Spr) - Honors Work
FEMGEN 105 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Internship in Feminist Studies
FEMGEN 108 (Aut, Sum)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2021-22 Courses
- Enacting Community Liberation: Women's Community Center
FEMGEN 108A (Win, Spr) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199A (Aut) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199B (Win) - Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Workshop
FEMGEN 199C (Spr) - Globally Queer
COLLEGE 103 (Spr) - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
FEMGEN 101 (Spr) - Junior Seminar and Practicum
FEMGEN 104A (Aut, Win) - Senior Seminar and Practicum
FEMGEN 104B (Aut)
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)
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)
- Enacting Community Liberation: Women's Community Center
All Publications
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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
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Moving Transgender Histories: Sean Dorsey's Trans Archival Practice
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
2015; 2 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1215/23289252-3151493