| Ivy Faye Monroe (she/her) is a 3rd year PhD student in American Studies and Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies and is also pursuing a Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. Her doctoral research works across American studies, trans studies, porn studies, and the study of the American right to examine how political anxieties about masculinity, whiteness, and privilege inform pornographic fantasies that eroticize a loss of power. Ivy holds an M.A. in Geography from the University of Kentucky and a B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University. She has previously worked as a lecturer in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University and has received multiple fellowships and grants in support of archival research. In addition to her academic work, Ivy has an extensive background in crisis support and peer advocacy with other transgender people. |
