Tranimacies: Intimate Links Between Animal and Trans* Studies

Eliza Steinbock, Assistant Professor Cultural Analysis, Leiden University, Netherlands. Author of Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change (Duke, 2019), co-editor of Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis: Aesthetic Resilience (Routledge, 2020), project-leader of ＂The Critical Visitor＂ consortium, developing intersectional approaches for inclusive heritage (2020-2025).

Marianna Szczygielska, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany. Author of scholarly publications on the history of zoos, human-animal relations and queer studies, and feminist activism, co-editor of ＂Plantarium: Human-Vegetal Ecologies＂ special issue for Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, (2019).

Anthony Clair Wagner, Senior Lecturer Design, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Author of several articles on trans, monstrosity and art, for example ＂Visible Monstrosity as Empowerment,＂ in Transgender Studies Quarterly 2.2. Workshop leader of the Monster Workshop and artist.