Lal Zimman
I am an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am also Series Editor for Oxford University Press's Studies in Language, Gender, and Sexuality.
My research deals with the relationship between language, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on English-speaking transgender and LGBQ communities. My work thus far has centered around the following topics:
-the shifting voices of transgender men and others on the female-to-male/transmasculine identity spectrum;
-the sociocultural processes that shape the production and perception of the gendered voice;
-trans speakers' terminological reconstructions of sex through the deployment and combination of 'female' and 'male' genital terminology;
-the discursive negotiation of tensions and alignments between transgender and gay/lesbian/queer identities.
Address: Department of Linguistics
South Hall 3432, mail code 3100
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100
My research deals with the relationship between language, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on English-speaking transgender and LGBQ communities. My work thus far has centered around the following topics:
-the shifting voices of transgender men and others on the female-to-male/transmasculine identity spectrum;
-the sociocultural processes that shape the production and perception of the gendered voice;
-trans speakers' terminological reconstructions of sex through the deployment and combination of 'female' and 'male' genital terminology;
-the discursive negotiation of tensions and alignments between transgender and gay/lesbian/queer identities.
Address: Department of Linguistics
South Hall 3432, mail code 3100
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100
less
Related Authors
InterestsView All (20)
Uploads
Papers by Lal Zimman
recuperating their bodies’ sexually productivity. Instead of
undermining claims of embodied masculinity and homoerotic
value, potential sites of exclusion—i.e., trans genitals—become sites of flexible accumulation that enhance rather than detract from their bearers’ desirability.
recuperating their bodies’ sexually productivity. Instead of
undermining claims of embodied masculinity and homoerotic
value, potential sites of exclusion—i.e., trans genitals—become sites of flexible accumulation that enhance rather than detract from their bearers’ desirability.
female versus male and gay versus straight have been
problematized as a symbol of the stigmatization and
erasure of non-normative subjects and practices. The chapters
in Queer Excursions offer a series of distinct perspectives on these
binaries, as well as on a number of other, less immediately
apparent dichotomies that nevertheless permeate the gendered
and sexual lives of speakers. Several chapters focus on the
limiting or misleading qualities of binaristic analyses, while
others suggest that binaries are a crucial component of social
meaning within particular communities of study. Rather than
simply accepting binary structures as inevitable, or discarding
them from our analyses entirely based on their oppressive or
reductionary qualities, this volume advocates for a retheorization
of the binary that affords more complex and
contextually-grounded engagement with speakers' own
orientations to dichotomous systems. Each chapter offers a
unique perspective on locally salient linguistic practices that help
constitute gender and sexuality in marginalized communities. As
a collection, Queer Excursions argues that researchers must be
careful to avoid the assumption that our own preconceptions
about binary social structures will be shared by the communities
we study.