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Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), In A Queer Time and Place (2005), The Queer Art of Failure ( 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (2012), and a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (2018). His recent book is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020). Places Journal awarded him its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment. His latest book is titled Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto, and it will be published in August 2026. He was the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton in 2022 and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2024.
