Jamiee Cook (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research and teaching centers work by multi-ethnic queer and trans writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with particular attention to how these texts explore queer identity development in context of various forms of political, structural, and interpersonal oppression. She is invested in intersectional feminist perspectives, critical race theories, and the histories and cultural production of diverse queer and trans communities. Her current book project explores fiction by multi-ethnic and gender diverse lesbian writers to trace how sensory knowledge can act as a method of liberation and connection for queer and trans people. Jamiee works across genres, with particular interest in science and speculative fiction, horror, memoir, and young adult fiction. Her scholarship can be found in MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, The Black Scholar, and is forthcoming in Diálogo: an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal.

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Teaching Interests: Multi-Ethnic U.S. Literature, African-American Literature, Latinx Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature, Science and Speculative Fiction, Young Adult and Coming-of-Age, Genealogies of Feminism, Queer of Color Critique, Transgender Studies, Critical Race Theory, Genre Studies, Writing and Research Skills