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Trish Salah
Associate Professor
Gender Studies
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Research interests: transgender/trans of colour theory, literature, and cultural productions; psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of race/gender/culture; postcolonial/decolonizing poetics and theory; sex workers' rights
Trish Salah鈥檚 research, teaching and supervision areas include postcolonial/decolonial, feminist, trans and queer poetics, literatures and theory, transnational transgender cultural production, psychoanalysis and affect theory, sex workers' rights movements, and un/popular cultures. Her current projects are Towards a Trans Minor Literature, an inquiry into the aesthetic and political projects of trans, transsexual, genderqueer and two-spirit writers, and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 2, a poetic exploration of colonial sexologies and phantasies of place-based sexuality.
Her first book of poetry, Wanting in Arabic, investigated the inscription of diasporic trans and queer subjectivities and the social, rhetorical and desiring labour of minority community formation. Her second book, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1, employs the lyric as a lens to read transgender fantasies encoded in feminist, autobiographical, anthropological, sexological and psychoanalytic archives.
Selected Publications
Books
Lyric Sexology: Volume I. New York, NY: Roof Books, 2014. (2nd Edition. Montreal: Metonymy Press, 2017.)
Wanting in Arabic: Poems. Toronto: Tsar Publications, 2002. (2nd Edition. Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2013.)
Edited Journal Issues
Arc Poetry Magazine. 鈥淧olymorphous per Verse: Special Issue on Trans, Two Spirit and Non-Binary Writers.鈥 Co-edited with Ali Blythe. 94 (Winter 2021).
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 鈥淪pecial Issue on Trans* Cultural Production.鈥 Co-edited with Julian Carter and David Getsy. 1.4 (Dec. 2014).
Canadian Review of American Studies. 鈥淪pecial Issue on Anne Marie MacDonald鈥檚 Fall on Your Knees.鈥 Co-edited with Sara Matthews and Dina Georgis. 35.2 (2005).
Articles/Chapters
鈥淭ransgender and Trans Genre Writing.鈥 The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction. Joshua Miller, ed. Cambridge University Press, 2021: 174-195.
鈥淩eturning to Schreber: Trans Literature as Psychoanalysis.鈥 Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies. Oren Gozlan, ed. New York: Routledge, 2018: 169-180.
鈥淲hat Does Tiresias Want?鈥 TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 4.4 (Fall 2017): 632-638.
鈥溾楾ime Isn鈥檛 After Us鈥: Some Tiresian Durations.鈥 Somatechnics 7.1 (March 2017): 16-33.
鈥淩eflections on Trans Organizing, Trade Unionism and Radical Communities.鈥 Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader. D. Irving and R. Raj, eds. Toronto: Canadian Scholar鈥檚 Press, 2014: 149-167.
鈥淚ntroduction.鈥 with Julian Carter and David Getsy. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 1.4. Ed. Julian Carter, David Getsy and Trish Salah. (2014): 469-481.
鈥淣otes on the Subaltern.鈥 TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 鈥淚naugural Issue: Keywords for Trans* Studies.鈥 1.1-2 (2014): 297-305.
鈥淔rom Fans to Activists: Popular Feminism enlists in 鈥楾he War on Terror鈥.鈥 Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in post-9/11 Cultural Practice. Lisa Taylor and Jasmin Zine, eds. Routledge, 2014: 152-71.
鈥淲orking for Change: Sex Workers in the Union Struggle.鈥 with J. Clamen and K. Gillies. Selling Sex: Canadian Academics, Advocates and Sex Workers in Dialogue. Emily van der Meulen, et al. eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013: 113-129.
鈥淏acklash to the Future: Re/Inscribing Transsexuality as Fundamentalism.鈥 Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (Spring 2011): 212-222.
鈥淚n Lieu of a Transgender Poetics.鈥 Contemporary Feminist Poetics in Canada. Ed. Kate Eichorn and Barbara Godard. Spec. Issue of Open Letter. 13.9 (Summer 2009): 34-6.
鈥淎fter Cissexual Poetry.鈥 Contemporary Queer Poetics. Ed. Julian Brolaski. Spec. Issue of Aufgabe: Journal of Poetry. 8 (Summer 2009): 282-298.
鈥淲hat鈥檚 all the Yap? Reading Mirha-Soleil Ross鈥 Performance of Activist Pedagogy.鈥 Spoken Word Performance. Ed. Theresa Cowan and Ric Knowles. Spec. Issue of Canadian Theatre Review. 130 (Spring 2007): 64-71.
Prose/Poetry/Creative Nonfiction
鈥淔orgetting" and "Small movements," Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics 17 (January, 2021): 151-152.
鈥淢anifest,鈥, 鈥淲hat鈥檚 to come鈥, 鈥淟ove poem.鈥 We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Eds. Kay Gabriel and Andrea Abi-Karam. Nightboat Books, 2020: 398-404.
鈥淪ome Complete,鈥 鈥淲indow or Bell,鈥 鈥淧rayer Glitch,鈥 鈥淏lurred Witness鈥 鈥淭rans +Queer Voices鈥 Ed. Zeyn Joukhadar, Special Issue of Mizna. 20.2 (2020): 49-52.
鈥淕别尘尘补测锄别,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Bomb Cyclone Magazine (Jan. 2020) Web.
鈥淧arallel Advances鈥 The Puritan. 47 (December 2019) Web.
鈥済耻颈濒别濒别蝉蝉,鈥 Arc Poetry Magazine. 89 (Summer 2019)
鈥減rovocations,鈥 鈥淭urning Looks (twice removed)鈥 and 鈥femme for femme,鈥 Femmescapes. 5 August 2019
鈥淰aults then.鈥 Thirteen: New Collected Poems from LGBTQI2S Writers in Canada. Writer鈥檚 Union of Canada. (2019)
鈥淧lay Animals.鈥 Cordite Poetry Review. 88 (2019)
鈥淐urrently in stock,鈥 鈥淐hanges to section six,鈥 and 鈥淧alm Reading.鈥 Action, Spectacle 1.1 (2018)
鈥淲hat I remember.鈥 Prism International 57.1 (2018) (2 pages).
鈥淒ragging Badly Behind鈥 and 鈥淔emmesub.鈥 Anomaly 26 (Winter 2018) (5 pages). Web.
鈥淧oem for Suhair Hammad.鈥 Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. Edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan. New York: Or Books, 2018: 151-152.
鈥淐roesus, at least in name,鈥 鈥淩ipple, Angel Quake,鈥 鈥淪ubclinical Routine #11鈥 Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. 22.1 (2017): 11-13, 85-86, 155-158.
鈥淚t Can Grow!!!鈥 Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. Edited by Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick. New York: Topside Press, 2017: 62-71.
鈥淭hird Meaning, 3rd鈥 Vetch: a magazine of Trans poetry and poetics. 3 (Fall 2016): 17-20.
鈥淗alving and Being鈥 Sinister Wisdom. 101 (Summer 2016): 58-63.