Overview
Liz Schoppelrei (they/them) 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: Queer and Trans 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 German, Comparative Literature, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. They are currently teaching “Queer and Trans Germany” and will offer “Introduction to Black German Studies” in Spring 2025.
Office Hours
Mondays 12:00PM-1:00PM (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