C. Riley Snorton

C. Riley Snorton is an American scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender and race, specifically Black transgender identities. His publications include Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. Snorton is currently an Associate Professor at Cornell University. In 2014 BET listed him as one of their "18 Transgender People You Should Know".[1]

Biography

[2]C. Riley Snorton is transgender scholar and author. Snorton was born in the Bronx and raised in Wedgefield, SC, Sumter, SC and attended in high school in Atlanta, GA. He has 3 older siblings and one younger sibling. Snorton earned an A.B. in Women and Gender Studies at Columbia University (2003), an M.A. in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (2008), and he also earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture, with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. He is a recipient of a predoctoral fellowship at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University (2009), a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Pomona College (2010) and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2015). Snorton has shared his knowledge with several universities. In 2010-2011 he was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Media Studies at Pomona College, in 2011-2014 he was an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University; Courtesy appointments and affiliations in Performance Studies, Theater, African American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Screen Cultures, in 2014 – 2017 he was an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, and presently he is the Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University; Courtesy appointments and affiliations in American Studies, English, LGBT Studies, and Theater as well as a Visiting Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.[3]

Publications


Books

  • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
  • Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.[4]
  • Gender. Keywords in African American Studies. Eds. Erica Edward and Rodrick Ferguson.

Journal articles and Book chapters

  • "‘A New Hope’: The Psychic Life of Passing." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 24.3 (2009): 77-92.
  • "Trapped in the Epistemological Closet: Black Sexuality and the ‘Ghettocentric Imagination.’" Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, 11.2 (2009): 94-111.
  • "Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife." Co-authored with Jin Haritaworn in the Transgender Studies Reader, 2nd Edition. Eds. Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura. (New York: Routledge, 2013): 66-76.[5]
  • "On the Question of ‘Who’s Out in Hip Hop.’" Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society 16.3 -4 (2014): 283 - 302.
  • "An Ambiguous Heterotopia: On the Past of Black Studies’ Futures." The Black Scholar, 44.2 (2014): 29–36.[6]
  • "Gender Trouble on Triton." In No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies. Ed. E. Patrick Johnson. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016): 105–123.

Awards and distinctions

  • 1999: Kluge Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, New York 1999-2003.
  • 2006: Fontaine fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  • 2008: James D. Woods Teaching Award, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  • 2009: Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2010: W.E.B. Du Bois Non-Residential Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
  • 2011: Consortium for Faculty Diversity/Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Two-year Award, Media Studies Department, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
  • 2014: Lavender Mentorship Award, LGBTQ Student Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
  • 2015: National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library, New York Public Library, New York, NY.

References

  1. ↑ "18 Transgender People You Should Know". BET.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  2. ↑ "ASE Faculty Profile > Department of American Studies and Ethnicity > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". dornsife.usc.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. ↑ "C. Riley Snorton | Africana Studies & Research Center Cornell Arts & Sciences". africana.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  4. ↑ Snorton, C. Riley (2014). Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0816677979.
  5. ↑ Snorton, C. Riley; Haritaworn, Jim (2013). Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife (2nd ed.). New York: Transgender Studies Reader. pp. 66–76.
  6. ↑ Snorton, C. Riley (2014). "On the Question of "Who's Out in Hip Hop"". Souls. 16 (4): 283–302. doi:10.1080/10999949.2014.968974. Retrieved 8 March 2018.


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