Liz Schoppelrei

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Overview

Liz Schoppelrei is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of German Studies and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. They received their dual-title Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Graduate Minor in German from Pennsylvania State University. In their current book project—Speculative Formations: Trans and Queer Communities in the Long Twentieth Century—they examine how literary and historical texts take up and contribute to taxonomies, labels, and non-normative embodiments, and how these texts imagine queer kinship, community-building, and solidarity. Throughout their teaching career, they have taught courses in Comparative Literature, German, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

 

Office Hours 
Tuesdays 12:00PM-2:00PM (email in advance at ems498@cornell.edu)

Research Focus

  • Global trans and queer literature and cultures
  • Trans Studies
  • Queer theory
  • Speculative fiction (esp. queer ecologies and Anthropocene studies)
  • Comics and zines
  • Trans and queer poetry

Publications

Speculative Formations: Trans Poetry, Taxonomies, and Communities in the Lesbian Magazine Die Freundin (1924-1933).” In Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World, 131-160, eds. Christopher Ewing and Sébastien Tremblay. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

‘It’s not a Uni-verse’: Kinships, Bodies, and Ecologies in the Speculative.” In Queer Kinship and Comparative Literature: New Perspectives, 213-235, eds. Anchit Sathi and Alice Ferrebe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

The Queer Intimacies of Roses in Louise Aston’s ‘Wilde Rosen’ (1846) and ‘Die wilde Rose’ (1850).” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 7, no. 3 (2020): 20-38.

‘Full Body Intersection’: Fat Positive Activism, Poetry Slam, and Rachel Wiley.Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society 8, no. 1 (2018): 75-86.

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Courses - Fall 2025

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