Meet the team

Hil Malatino - President


Hil Malatino is assistant professor in the Departments of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy at Penn State University, where he is also a core faculty member of the Rock Ethics Institute. He is the author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (Minnesota 2022), Trans Care (Minnesota 2020), and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience (Nebraska 2019), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. His research and teaching draw upon trans and intersex studies, critical sexuality studies, transnational feminisms, disability studies, and feminist philosophy to theorize how experiences of violence, trauma, and resilience play out in intersex, trans, and gender non-conforming lives.

hmalatino@psu.edu

Frances Henderson – President-Elect


Frances Henderson is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky, whose research include black feminisms and race in social movements in the US. Her work “Black Rural Lives Matter” appeared in Transforming Anthropology and her writings on equity in teaching has been featured in Conditionally Accepted in the Chronicle of Higher Education. She is currently working on a manuscript about anti-racist activism in East TN and the ways in which this activism dovetails with Appalachian justice movements and the Movement for Black Lives.

KYfrances.henderson@uky.edu

Stacy Keltner – Past President

Stacy Keltner is a first-generation college graduate, professor, and scholar-activist from Atlanta, Georgia whose career has been dedicated to building spaces, curricula, and programming for interdisciplinary and engaged scholarly work with feminist and social justice intent. She has founded and directed several university programs and academic organizations and led multiple initiatives to promote and support diversity, social justice, and civic and community engagement. Stacy is the outgoing President of The Southeastern Women's Studies Association and Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the M.A. in American Studies at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Julia Kristeva: Thresholds (2011) and editor of Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Kristeva (2009, with Kelly Oliver) and Love and Sex: A Primer (2020).

skeltner@kennesaw.edu

Jayme Canty

BIPOC Caucus Chair

Dr. Jayme Canty is an intersectional humanities scholar activist with a focus on the experiences of Black women and Black queer persons. She received her Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University (NC A&T) in Political Science. After working as a paralegal in for two years, she returned to complete her Master of Arts degree in Africana Women’s Studies at Clark Atlanta University. She stayed at Clark Atlanta University to obtain a Ph.D. in Humanities with concentrations in Africana Women’s Studies and Political Science in Fall 2017. She has worked as an assistant professor at University of Nevada at Las Vegas and Virginia Commonwealth University.

 Her current research chronicles the collective narrative Southern Black queer lesbian women and gender non-conforming persons, uncovering how the American (US) South shapes and molds their lived experiences. Her forthcoming manuscript, Snapping Beans: Voices of a Black Queer Lesbian South, outlines the ways the South informs their intersectional identities. 

She currently works as an assistant professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and an iCubed faculty for the Intersections in the Lives of LGBTQIA+ persons core.

David Rubin

LGBTQ Caucus Chair

David A. Rubin is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida and affiliate faculty in the Communication Department. Their areas of expertise are critical intersex and transgender studies; science and technology studies; history of medicine, race, and gender; and transnational feminisms. They are the author of Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism (SUNY Press, 2017), co-editor of Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader (University of Washington Press, and co-editor of “The Intersex Issue,” a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly: TSQ forthcoming in 2022. Their recent article “Anger, Aggression, Attitude: Intersex Rage as Biopolitical Protest” was included in the “Rage” special issue of Signs (vol. 46, no. 4, Summer 2021). They are currently working on projects on intersex care and negative affect; queer, feminist, and trans pandemic survival; and the biopolitics of exercise science and nutrition.

Jocelyne Bartram Scott

Treasurer

Jocelyne Bartram Scott, Ph.D. (she/her) is the Director of Equity and Inclusive Excellence at Bucknell University. Dr. Scott holds a Ph.D. in Gender Studies from Indiana University uses her expertise in feminist and queer theory and critical femininity studies to create research- based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) interventions. Her research can be found in the Journal of Lesbian Studies, Psychology & Sexuality, and Fat Studies, among others.

Katelyn M. Campbell

Secretary 

Katelyn M. Campbell is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation considers the archive of the womyn's land movement alongside work in Queer Theory and Critical Ethnic Studies, asking what land means for feminisms and what feminisms mean for lands. Katelyn is the 2016 Harry S. Truman Scholar from West Virginia and an alumna of Wellesley College.

Jordan Keesler 

Director of Membership and Outreach

Jordan Keesler (they/them) holds a B.A. in WGSS from Agnes Scott College and an M.A. in WGSS from Georgia State University. Their research interests lie at the intersection of trans studies, sport and cultural studies, and feminist science studies. Jordan is continuing their studies at The Harriet Tubman Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, where they seek to examine the construction of trans athletes as a political category within the US and transnationally. When they are not keeping up with their studies, you can find them plotting to find their way back home in the mountains, arranging flowers, or following their favorite sports team.To see what Jordan has been up to recently, check out their website. 

Jill Fredenburg

Director of Communication

Jill Fredenburg is a PhD student in Communication at the University of Memphis. Her research areas include media's effects on identity formation, documentary filmmaking methods, algorithmic biases, and Queer and Feminist technocultures. Jill is a 2017-2018 Fulbright alumna, and she received her MA in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University in 2020. She has a freelance design and content production business that you can find on her website.

Jfrdnbrg@Memphis.edu