DISSERTATION FELLOW 2016 – 2017

Melina Moore

For a dissertation on Trans Life Writing from the 18th Century to the Present: Genres in Transition

Melina Moore is a doctoral candidate in English whose dissertation is entitled “Trans Life Writing from the 18th Century to the Present: Genres in Transition,” examining the way transgender subjects engage with and revise existing narrative forms in the Western autobiographical tradition to tell stories of gender crossing.