C. Riley Snorton

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C. Riley Snorton at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva, March 2024.

C. Riley Snorton is an American scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender and race, specifically Black transgender identities. His publications include Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). [1] [2] Snorton is currently Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. In 2014 BET listed him as one of their "18 Transgender People You Should Know". [3] Snorton is a highly sought after speaker and considered one of the leading voices in Black studies and cultural theory.

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Biography

C. Riley Snorton is a Black transgender cultural theorist who focuses on racial, sexual and transgender histories and cultural productions. Snorton was born in the Bronx and raised in Wedgefield, SC, Sumter, SC and attended high school in Atlanta, GA. He has 3 older siblings and one younger sibling. Snorton earned an A.B. in Women and Gender Studies at Columbia University (2003), an M.A. in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (2008), and he also earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture, with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. He is a recipient of a predoctoral fellowship at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University (2009), a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Pomona College (2010), and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2015). [4] He is currently Professor of English Language and Literature and is jointly appointed in the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago. He is currently working on a book project with the tentative title Mud: Ecologies of Racial Meaning where he will examine racial practices in relation to swamps and is coediting the forthcoming The Flesh of the Matter: A Hortense Spillers Reader.

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Awards and distinctions

Footnotes

  1. Snorton, C. Riley (2014). Nobody is Supposed to Know: Sexuality on the Down Low. University of Minnesota Press. p. 210. ISBN   9781452940908.
  2. Snorton, C. Riley (2017). Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. University of Minnesota Press. p. 256. ISBN   9781452955858.
  3. "18 Transgender People You Should Know". BET.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  4. "ASE Faculty Profile > Department of American Studies and Ethnicity > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". dornsife.usc.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-04-17. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. "Saturation". MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
  6. Yapp, Hentyle; Snorton, C. Riley (2020-01-01). "Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (Introduction)". Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value.
  7. Snorton, C. Riley (2014). Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN   978-0816677979.
  8. Nero, Charles I. (2016). "Nobody's Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low by C. Riley Snorton (review)" . QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. 3 (1): 157–159. doi:10.14321/qed.3.1.0157. ISSN   2327-1590.
  9. Snorton, C. Riley; Haritaworn, Jim (2013). Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife (2nd ed.). New York: Transgender Studies Reader. pp. 66–76.
  10. Snorton, C. Riley (2014). "On the Question of "Who's Out in Hip Hop"". Souls. 16 (4): 283–302. doi:10.1080/10999949.2014.968974. S2CID   144010425.
  11. Snorton, C. Riley (2020-12-31), Edwards, Erica R.; Ferguson, Roderick A.; Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. (eds.), "19. Gender" , Keywords for African American Studies, New York University Press, pp. 90–92, doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479810253.003.0022, ISBN   978-1-4798-1025-3 , retrieved 2024-10-28
  12. Cheng, Jih-Fei; Juhasz, Alexandra; Shahani, Nishant, eds. (2020-12-31), "Afterword. On Crisis and Abolition" , AIDS and the Distribution of Crises, Duke University Press, pp. 313–318, doi:10.1515/9781478009269-017, ISBN   978-1-4780-0926-9 , retrieved 2024-10-28
  13. Ellison, Treva; Green, Kai M.; Richardson, Matt; Snorton, C. Riley (2017-05-01). "We Got Issues" . TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 4 (2): 162–169. doi:10.1215/23289252-3814949. ISSN   2328-9252.
  14. Bychowski, M. W.; Chiang, Howard; Halberstam, Jack; Lau, Jacob; Long, Kathleen P.; Ochoa, Marcia; Snorton, C. Riley; DeVun, Leah; Tortorici, Zeb (2018-11-01). ""Trans*historicities"" . TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 5 (4): 658–685. doi:10.1215/23289252-7090129. ISSN   2328-9252.
  15. Snorton, C. Riley (2019). "The Temporality of Radical Potential?" . GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 25 (1): 159–161. doi:10.1215/10642684-7275390. ISSN   1527-9375.
  16. Imhotep, Ra Malika; Zhang, Sj; Snorton, C. Riley (2020-09-01). ""Hell You Talmbout?" Sighting confusion in the performance of Black Revolt" . Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 30 (3): 331–343. doi:10.1080/0740770X.2020.1907687. ISSN   0740-770X.
  17. "C. Riley Snorton is the 2023 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality". Archived from the original on November 5, 2023. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  18. "Faculty | The Department of English and Comparative Literature". english.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2024-10-07. Retrieved 2025-06-10.