Help Me, Peter. Help Me: Apostrophe, Catachresis, and the Relationality of the Transfeminine Voice in Sarah Hennies's Contralto (2017) by Tp Coughlin

Jesse L. Rosenberger Work-in-Progress Seminar Series: Help Me, Peter. Help Me: Apostrophe, Catachresis, and the Relationality of the Transfeminine Voice in Sarah Hennies's Contralto (2017) by Tp Coughlin

Tp Coughlin is a trans studies scholar specializing in trans cultural production, speculative media, and narratology. They are currently completing their Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Davis. Their dissertation offers a formalist prehistory of nonbinary, tracing the speculative reimaginings of gender in science fiction, case law, employment policy, and feminist activism in the post-war United States. This project has been supported by the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship at the University of Oregon and the Ruth Stephan Fellowship at Yale University. Their work is forthcoming in Science Fiction Studies and Utopian Studies. At the University of Rochester, they will begin a new project investigating the role of the voice in contemporary trans media.