Rachel Corbman received a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stony Brook University in May 2019, and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. Her research and teaching interests span feminist studies, queer studies, disability studies, transgender studies, the public and digital humanities, and the history of gender and sexuality. Her current book project, "Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation, 1969-89," offers a history of the conflicts that shaped U.S. women’s studies and gay and lesbian studies in the 1970s and 1980s. "Conferencing on the Edge" was recognized by the 2017 CLAGS Fellowship Award and the American Studies Association's 2019 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize, and portions of this project have been published in Feminist Formations and GLQ. In addition to her scholarly research, Rachel is a public historian. Most recently, she curated the Wide World of Lesbian Cats, an exhibition at the LGBT Community Center in New York that excavates a history of cat memes in lesbian, feminist, and queer print and digital culture from the 1970s to the present.

Contact: rcorbman@mtholyoke.edu