Monthly Archives: November 2016

Transparent Screening and Q&A (Transparent Symposium)

Screening will be held in the large Theater 1, located on East Avenue. This event is one of the many free events offered as a part of The Transparent Symposium hosted by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, … Continue reading

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Rubel discusses Transparent Symposium in UR QuadCast

“Amazon’s TV series Transparent has “single-handedly helped change the conversation about trans people in America,” says Nora Rubel, associate professor in the Department of Religion and Classics and the director of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. … Continue reading

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Transparent Symposium

Dubbed by The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum a “stealth masterpiece,” Transparent (Amazon, 2014-2016) captures psychological, social, and historical dynamics of being transgender at precisely the moment that transgender individuals and stories have taken a central place in American mass culture. … Continue reading

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Mia Alvar received 2016 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize

Mia Alvar was named the 2016 recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction presented by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the Department of English. The award is being given for her debut work … Continue reading

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