Maxe Crandall

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 100 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 the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry Project, Poets House, SFMOMA Open Space, and a Eureka Commission from Onassis USA.

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)

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)
• Independent Studies (2)
  • Honors Work
    FEMGEN 105 (Aut, Win, Spr)
  • Internship in Feminist Studies
    FEMGEN 108 (Sum)
• Prior Year Courses

  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)

  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)