Jack Halberstam
Research Interests
Cultural Studies, Queer Theory, Film, Media, and Visual Studies, Gothic Literature and the Horror Film, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Popular Culture, Feminist Theory, Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism
Biography
Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s recent book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam's latest book is titled Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto, and it will be published by MIT Press in August 2026. Halberstam was the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton in 2022 and he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2024.
