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Kerry Manzo, PhD

(he/him/his)
​Visiting Assistant Professor
Global Anglophone Literature
ACLS Pauline Yu Fellow in Comparative Literature, 2021-22
Mellon/ACLS Fellow, 2018-19
Department of Literature
SUNY Purchase

Extracurricular Service:
Transgender Community Advocate and Educator
Co-founder, Out in West Texas: Transgender Advocacy and Education

About

I am a transmasculine queer Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone Literature at SUNY Purchase in Harrison, NY. I was raised in the West Texas transnational border community of El Paso, TX, where I lived and taught for over 25 years. I completed my doctorate at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, where I studied postcolonial comparative literature of West Africa and South Asia, with a special focus on LGBTQIA  literature. My current book project is titled Sex, Gender, and the Making of Postcolonial African Literature.

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Mbari cut across the languages and also across the different arts. In Mbari we had the painters, the poets, the musicians and the actors. And once people came into that kind of community, they simply absorbed the principles…none of us at that time knew what a great thing we had; nor could we imagine what a terrible level of national disintegration we could reach.

-Wole Soyinka, Interview with Ulli Beier
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