Gender Trouble in Paradise

JACK HALBERSTAM is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books, including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (New York, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon, 2012), and a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Berkeley, 2018). Halberstam’s latest book is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Duke, 2020). Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled So We Moved: Portrait of Jack Halberstam by Adam Pendleton. It played at MoMA from September 2021 through February 2022.