The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature

The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature examines the intersection of transgender studies and literary studies, bringing together essays from global experts in the field. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of trans literature, highlighting the core topics, genres, and periods important for scholarship now and in the future.

Covering the main approaches and key literary genres of the area, this volume includes:

• Examination of the core topics guiding contemporary trans literary theory and criticism, including the Anthropocene, archival speculation, activism, BDSM, Black studies, critical plant studies, culture, diaspora, disability, ethnocentrism, home, inclusion, monstrosity, nondualist philosophies, nonlinearity, paradox, pedagogy, performativity, poetics, religion, suspense, temporality, visibility, and water.

• Exploration of diverse literary genres, forms, and periods through a trans lens, such as archival fiction, artificial intelligence narratives, autobiography, climate fiction, comics, creative writing, diaspora fiction, drama, fan fiction, gothic fiction, historical fiction, manga, medieval literature, minor literature, modernist literature, mystery and detective fiction, nature writing, poetry, postcolonial literature, radical literature, realist fiction, Renaissance literature, Romantic literature, science fiction, travel writing, utopian literature, Victorian literature, and young adult literature.

This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, gender studies, trans studies, literary theory, and literary criticism.

Douglas A. Vakoch is President of METI, dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence and sustaining civilization on multigenerational timescales. As Director of Green Psychotherapy, PC, he helps alleviate environmental distress through ecotherapy. Dr. Vakoch is editor-in-chief of the book series Space and Society (Springer), as well as general editor of Ecocritical Theory and Practice (Lexington Books). He has explored ecofeminism in six of his other books, including Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction (Routledge).

Sabine Sharp is a scholar of trans and science fiction studies. In March 2021, they completed a PhD titled ＂Monsters, Time-Travel, and Aliens: Tracing the Genealogies of ’Trans’ through Feminist Science Fiction Writing and Film,＂ in the English and American Studies department of the University of Manchester. They were awarded the 2018 Contemporary Women’s Writing (CWW) essay prize, for a paper analysing how two Asian Canadian science fiction works contend with the genre’s implication in colonial discourses. The paper was later published in the CWW journal. Sabine has taught undergraduate courses on literature, film, and criticism with a focus on feminist, queer, trans, and critical race theories. Between 2016 and 2023, they organized the University of Manchester’s Sexuality Summer School, a week of postgraduate events on queer and feminist debates. Alongside developing new writing on trans science fiction, they work as an e-learning support officer at the University of Manchester Library.