Rachel Corbman is a postdoctoral fellow in community data in the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Toronto. She received a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stony Brook University in May 2019. She specializes in the history of U.S. feminist and queer social movements in the late twentieth century, with particular attention to the intellectual work of these movements. Her first book, Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation, is under contract with the Theory Q series at Duke University Press. Recognized by the CLAGS: the Center for LGBTQ Studies fellowship award (2017) and the Ralph Henry Gabriel dissertation prize (2019, honorable mention), Conferencing on the Edge tells the story of five academic conferences with notable citational afterlives in feminist and queer studies. Portions of this project have been published in Feminist Formations and GLQ. In addition to her scholarly research, Rachel is a public historian. In 2019, she curated the Wide World of Lesbian Cats, an exhibit at the LGBT Community Center in New York that excavated a history of cat memes in lesbian, feminist, and queer print and digital culture from the 1970s to the present.

Contact: rachel.corbman@utoronto.ca