Red Washburn

Red Washburn, PhD, is Professor of English and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at CUNY Kingsborough. They also teach Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. They are the co-editor of WSQ, published by the Feminist Press. Red’s articles appear in Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Journal of Lesbian Studies. Their essays are in several anthologies, including Theory and Praxis: Women’s and Gender Studies at Community Colleges, Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, and Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. They are the co-editor of Sinister Wisdom’s Dump Trump: Legacies of Resistance, 45 Years: A Tribute to Lesbian Herstory Archive, and Trans/Feminisms. Finishing Line Press published their poetry collections Crestview Tree Woman and Birch Philosopher X. Their academic book Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960-2010s is forthcoming from Routledge in July 2022. They are co-editing WSQ’s issue Nonbinary (forthcoming September 2023). They received an ACLS/ Mellon fellowship for their next project Nonbinary: [email protected] Gender and Genre in [email protected] Literature, Performance, and Visual Art. Red is a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives and on the board of directors of Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS).