K. Allison Hammer

K. Allison Hammer is an interdisciplinary, cross-genre scholar, artist, and cultural critic. In their critical practice, they discover new connections between historical time periods and reveal the trace of the past in the present. Their work brings together a diverse archive of cultural objects, including film, media, literature, and performance, objects which are not normally viewed as interrelated. Throughout numerous articles, book chapters, and conference presentation, Allison presents masculinity as a complex gender formation that is tied to different embodiments, subjectivities, sexualities, identifications, and ideologies. They aim to transform and transgender the field of critical and comparative masculinities studies, and to have a wide, field-redefining impact on gender studies, trans studies, queer theory, and political theory. Additional articles, essays, and reviews can be found in the forthcoming collection Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity, The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability, Hypatia, The Journal of African American History, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Women's Studies Quarterly, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Journal of Lesbian Studies, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Feminist Formations, The Lifted Brow, and EOAGH. Allison is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, in the School of Africana and Multicultural Studies, at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.