Emi Frerichs

Emi Frerichs, Ph.D. (they/them) is the 2023-2025 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transgender Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As a specialist of the Global South, Frerichs re-examines trans*/travesti/non-binary gender identity and non-normative sexualities by focusing on their radical revision in Latin American literature, history, and culture. While drawing on the cultural and linguistic expertise forged through their field work as a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, their research necessarily draws from as it also contributes to the transdisciplinary work of Latin American Studies, Trans*/Travesti Studies and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies.