affect theory, trans studies, feminist theory and historiography, queer theory, cultural studies, phenomenology, aesthetics
Andrea Long Chu
Andrea Long Chu holds a B.A. in Literature from Duke University and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation. Her essay "On Liking Women" for n+1 has been hailed by Sandy Stone as launching "the second wave" of trans studies. Her writing has been published in Women & Performance: A journal of feminist theory, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Artforum, and n+1, with work forthcoming in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, the Journal of Speculative Philosophy: A Quarterly Journal of History, Criticism, and Imagination, and n+1. She sits on the editorial collective of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. Her academic book project, Bad Politics, is about what happens when subjects living under oppression don’t feel like resisting and do something else instead. Her trade book project, The Impossibility of Feminism, takes off from a hunch that Seventies feminism, by opening the personal to political critique, accidentally proved feminism impossible, and we've been in denial about it ever since. She is also a freelance graphic designer. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and her cat. Her middle name is really Long. Writing and designs can be found at andrealongchu.com.
“The Impossibility of Feminism.” Forthcoming in “Sexual Politics, Sexual Panics,” edited by Robyn Wiegman. Special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 30, no. 1 (Spring 2019).
“Black Infinity: Slavery and Freedom in Hegel’s Africa.” Forthcoming in Journal of Speculative Philosophy: A Quarterly Journal of History, Criticism, and Imagination 32, no. 3 (2018).
“Bad TV.” Forthcoming in n+1 31 (Spring 2018).
“Pornographic Spectatorship, or, Did Sissy Porn Make Me Trans?” 2018 annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, March 29–April 1, 2018.
“Did Sissy Porn Make Me Trans?” Queer Disruptions 2, Columbia University, New York, NY, March 1–2, 2018. [pdf]
“On Liking Women.” n+1 30 (December 2017): 47–62. [link]
“Study in Blue: Trauma, Affect, Event.” Women & Performance: A journal of feminist theory 27, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 301–15. [link]