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1 T. BENJAMIN SINGER Department of Literatures in English 828 S. Saint Bernard Street Rutgers University, Murray Hall Philadelphia, PA George Street New Brunswick, NJ EDUCATION Rutgers University Ph.D., Literatures in English, October 2011 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee M.A., English Modern Studies, May 1993 Thesis: Lesbian Pornography: The Re-Making of (a) Community University of Wisconsin-Madison B.A. (honors), Women s Studies and Independent Major, May 1990 Independent Major Topic: Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Praxis DISSERTATION Towards a Transgender Sublime: The Politics of Excess in Trans-specific Cultural Production Committee: Richard Miller (chair), David Kurnick, Heather Love, Susan Stryker, David Valentine Abstract: This dissertation develops the concept of a transgender sublime across a range of cultural productions that include medical, public health, literary, artistic and popular media discourses. It argues that encounters with rapidly proliferating embodiments and identities that exceed sex/gender categorization can overwhelm perception, unsettle familiar ways of knowing, and enable new modes of subjectivity. An aesthetic of transgender sublimity uses representational excess toward political ends. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Research Scholar, Alice Paul Center, University of Pennsylvania, Art and Social Change Grant, Leeway Foundation, 2010 Behavioral Science Training Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, National Point Foundation Scholar, Martin Duberman Award, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, 2004 Sexuality Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, Jonathon Lax Scholarship, Bread and Roses Community Fund, Philadelphia, Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University, PUBLICATIONS From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations : The Ethics of (Re)viewing Non-normative Body Images, The Transgender Studies Reader, eds., S. Stryker and S. Whittle. Routledge (2006).

2 Singer, Curriculum Vitae 2 A Needs Assessment of Transgender People of Color Living in Washington D.C. Co-authored with J. Xavier, M. Bobbin, E. Budd. International Journal of Transgenderism. 8.2/3 (2005): Published simultaneously in: Transgender Health and HIV Prevention: Needs Assessment Studies from Transgender Communities Across the United States, eds., W. Bockting and E. Avery. Haworth Medical Press (2005). An Overview of U.S. Trans Health Priorities: A Report by the Eliminating Disparities Working Group. Co-authored with Jessica Xavier, Donald Hitchcock, et al. National Coalition for LGBT Health, Washington, D.C. (August 2004-update). Guest Advisory Editor, Camera Obscura, Visualizing Trauma, Framing Memory, Vol. 18, No (2003). Lesbian Pornography: The Re/Making of (a) Community, Discourse 15.1 (1992): SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures and Presentations Bio-power, Public Health and the Affective Politics of HIV Education. TransActions Symposium, Princeton University, April Caution! New identities are constantly emerging Transgender Category Trouble, Bio-power and the State. TRANS/Forming Institutions Symposium, Wesleyan University, October The Transgender Sublime and Public Health. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, April Ethnography, Aesthetics and the Politics Visual Documentation. Association of Visual Anthropology, Temple University, April From the Medical Gaze to Sublime Mutations : Re-viewing Images of Non-standard Bodies and their Ethical Implications. Women s and Gender Studies Fall Lecture Series, University of Louisville, October Embodied Aesthetics: Politicized Representations of Trans, Dis/abled and Intersex Embodiment. Colloquium for Rutgers Department of Anthropology, March The Medical Gaze and Transgender Visual Cultures. Fifty Years After: Christine Jorgensen s Legacy Symposium, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, November The Violence of Pure Spaces. Relatively Speaking: LGBT Families Conference, New York University, May Theory and Activism: Inside/Outside the Academy. Queer Pedagogy: Colloquium on Sexuality and Curricular Transformation, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, March Velveteen Realness: Transsexual Autobiography and Transgender Politics. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, March 1997.

3 Singer, Curriculum Vitae 3 Narrative Trans/Formations. Transforming Knowledge: Street Smarts, Social Activism and the Power of Expertise, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York, May Conference Presentations Transgender Demographic Imaginaries in U.S. Public Health Surveys. TransSomatechnics: Theories and Practices of Transgender Embodiment, Simon Fraser University, May The Politics of Sex and Gender Categorization in Surveys The Seventh Annual Philadelphia Trans-health Conference, Mazzoni Center Philadelphia, May Invited Roundtables and Panels Beginning a Global Dialogue on Transgender Rights: A Meeting of the Global Dialogue on Sexual Health and Well-being, National Centers on Sexuality (convener), National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (host), Ford Foundation (funder), April Trans-health Roundtable: Setting a National Policy Agenda for the Obama Administration, National Center for Transgender Equality, Washington, DC, March Consultative Meeting: Improving HIV Prevention for Transgender Individuals, National U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, September Consultative Meeting: Transgender People and HIV, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, MD, May Trans-health Activists Discuss the Future, 130 th Annual American Public Health Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November Complications: Contemporary Social Aspects of Art and Transgender Communities, Trans-Art Series, San Francisco, CA, May TEACHING PRESENTATIONS The Pregnant Man: Representational Ambivalence and Unspeakable Bodies. Lecture for the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Swarthmore College, February Conceptualizing TRANS in Research Studies. Faculty of the LGBT Health Studies Program Summer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, July Systems Theory and the Narrative Medicine Classroom. Faculty of the Columbia University Narrative Medicine Program, Advanced Narrative Medicine Workshop, Columbia University, June Recent Issues in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Lecture for Sociology of Gender, Rutgers University, March New Directions in Sex, Gender and Medicine. Lecture for Drexel University Medical School, October 2002.

4 Singer, Curriculum Vitae 4 TEACHING COURSES University of Pennsylvania, Gender, Sexuality and Women s Studies Program Adjunct Assistant Professor Queer Intersections (Spring 2012) Transgender Queries (Spring 2012) Designed syllabi and teaching courses: introduction to intersectional queer theory and an upper-level undergraduate seminar on critical issues in trans studies. Barnard College, Columbia University, Women s Studies Department Adjunct Assistant Professor Transgender Queries in Medicine, Law, Politics and Culture (Fall 2005) Designed course syllabus and taught upper-level undergraduate seminar. University of Pennsylvania, Department of English The Twentieth Century (Spring 2002) Assisted with grading, student advising and lecturing. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Comparative Literature World Literature (Fall 2001) Assisted with grading and student advising. Temple University, English Department Cross-cultural Issues in Reading and Critical Writing (Fall-Spring ) Instructor of a required core course for undergraduates. Drexel University, English/Humanities Department Humanities 101, 102 and 103 (Fall-Spring ) Instructor of a series of required core courses for undergraduates. Rutgers University, Department of Literatures in English Principles of Literary Study (1998) - Instructor of a required core course for English majors. Visions of Difference ( ) - Instructor of Expository Writing. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS LGBT Studies and Queer Theory, Transgender Studies, Feminist and Gender Studies, Transnational Sexuality/Gender Studies, Visual Culture and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Intersectional Analysis, Interdisciplinary Studies, Critical Medical Studies, Narrative Medicine, Systems-Centered Theory, Ethnography, HIV, Harm Reduction and Public Health RELATED RESEARCH AND EMPLOYMENT Co-Founder and Director of the Trans-health Information Project (TIP) Peer-directed HIV prevention program funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A collaborative project of Prevention Point Philadelphia needle exchange and the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative through the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, AIDS Activities Coordinating Office.

5 Singer, Curriculum Vitae 5 ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY ADVOCACY (SELECTIONS) Consultant, Behavioral Science Training Program, National Development Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, New York City, Keynote, For Ourselves Reworking Gender (FORGE) Forward Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Keynote and Trainer, New England Gender Conference, Smith College, Trainer, Emerging Issues in Sex, Gender and Medicine, Brown University Medical School, Facilitator, Voices Raised: Transgender Teach-In, Columbia University, Coordinator, Transgender Youth of Color and HIV Training Series, George Washington University, Trainer, Transgender People and HIV Risk: Removing Barriers to Care, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, AIDS Activities Coordinating Office, Trainer, Transgender Women of Color: HIV and Safer Injecting, for Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, PreventionWorks, and LaClinica del Pueblo, Washington, DC, Co-organizer, Trans-health for the New Millennium: A Conference on Accessing and Providing Services, First Annual Philadelphia Trans-health Conference, Co-chair, Trans-Health Institute, Beyond Healthy People 2010, LGBTI Health Summit, Boulder, CO, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Modern Language Association, Social Science Research Council, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The National Coalition of LGBT Health, American Public Health Association, National Women s Studies Association, The Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, The University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics consortium on Bioethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity REFERENCES HeatherLove,AssociateProfessorofEnglish,UniversityofPennsylvania loveh@english.upenn.edu Richard Miller, Professor and Chair of Literatures in English, Rutgers University Richard.Miller@rutgers.edu SusanStryker,AssociateProfessorofGenderStudies,IndianaUniversity Bloomington Stryksus@indiana.edu DavidValentine,AssociateProfessorofAnthropology,UniversityofMinnesota Valen076@umn.edu