Lore/tta LeMaster

Lore/tta LeMaster, Ph.D. (she/they) is an award-winning scholar and artist who engages the intersectional constitution of cultural difference with particular focus on trans and queer of color life, art, and embodiment. Their work braids the social sciences with the humanities in service of liberatory political praxes. Recent research includes critical qualitative investigations into trans life; meta-interrogations of disciplinary complacencies in U.S. settler empire-making; the rhetorical construction of transness in monstrous terms; and performative explorations of sensorial economies. Their research has been published in academic handbooks, anthologies, and journals and is co-editor (with Amber L. Johnson) of the award-winning anthology Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography: Embodied Theorizing from the Margins (Routledge, 2020). Prior to 2021, they published as B. LeMaster.