Cael M Keegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 318997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cael M Keegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cael M |
| FAMILY NAME | Keegan |
| SIGNATURE | KEEGAN C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why Trans Cinema Doesn’t Exist
This essay illustrates how queer cinema studies has been structured by a negative co-history with trans that has driven the texts and questions it can take up, the temporalities governing its formation, and the rhetorical shape of its intellectual products. It argues that the ground from which queer cinema studies has traced the evolution of queer cinema – from an outsider form to a now tenuously global force – is terrain established via a cordon…
Escaping the Point: On Trans Visibility and the Art of Edie Fake
Since TIME magazine's declaration of the “transgender tipping point” in 2014, images of transgender identities in US film and television have more than quadrupled. And yet these efforts to make transgender bodies “visible” within popular media often reproduce a tacit cissexist optics that remains intact. Trans activists, creators, and scholars have pointed out that this increased representation offers transgender people a paradox: what seems like…
On the Necessity of Bad Trans Objects
Despite newly affirming images of transgender people proliferating across US visual media, there has been a concomitant rise in anti-transgender attitudes, transphobic legislation, and trans antagonistic violence. The assumption that more and better images of transgender people are key to achieving transgender equality strains under the weight of an emerging contradiction: “good” representation does not necessarily mean reduced social or politica…
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Against Queer Theory
The author explores how current disciplinary conditions force trans studies against queer theory: Because queer theory is the institutional context through which trans studies is invited into the university, it is also the containing ideological architecture against which trans studies must articulate itself. Trans studies is therefore pressed “against” queer theory as a discursive surface in a manner that limits it from being able to exit this d…
Getting Disciplined: What's Trans* About Queer Studies Now
This essay maps the epistemological terrain trans* studies may face as it is widely incorporated into queer studies programs, often housed within women's studies departments. Over the past two decades, queer studies and women's studies have rapidly professionalized, producing new modes of disciplinary power that may seek to either include or cite trans* studies, often without fully welcoming its specific material and political investments. Under …
Cinematic/Trans*/Bodies Now (and Then, and to Come)
On Being the Object of Compromise
The 2014 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) conference specifically solicited trans-feminist academic work through a call for proposals subtheme entitled “Trans-Feminisms.” This subtheme called for work exploring how “trans-feminist analyses help us redefine feminist politics” and discussing “opportunities for coalitions and convergences among trans-feminisms without co-opting self-chosen trans*/gender identifications and/or objectifying…
Tongues without Bodies
Sense8 marks a number of televisual “firsts” in the circulation of trans* as an increasingly transnational and translingual identity category. It is not only the first television program to feature a transgender character written/directed by trans creators and acted by a trans performer, but it also attempts to visualize a global imaginary in thrilling new ways that revolutionize both the temporality and spatiality of televisual production. In th…
Revisitation: A Trans Phenomenology of the Media Image
How might certain moving images move us into transgender becoming? The recent proliferation of transgender images in the media of the Global North has been widely regarded as supporting transgender political and social equality. But do these images do justice to the complexity of transgender lives? Who are images of transgender identity made for, and whose interests do they serve? Instead of discussing media that produce a transgender object for …
Looking Transparent
The author compares the portraits of gender and sexuality in the HBO series Looking and the Amazon series Transparent
Getting Disciplined: What's Trans* About Queer Studies Now
This essay maps the epistemological terrain trans* studies may face as it is widely incorporated into queer studies programs, often housed within women's studies departments. Over the past two decades, queer studies and women's studies have rapidly professionalized, producing new modes of disciplinary power that may seek to either include or cite trans* studies, often without fully welcoming its specific material and political investments. Under …
Tongues without Bodies
Sense8 marks a number of televisual “firsts” in the circulation of trans* as an increasingly transnational and translingual identity category. It is not only the first television program to feature a transgender character written/directed by trans creators and acted by a trans performer, but it also attempts to visualize a global imaginary in thrilling new ways that revolutionize both the temporality and spatiality of televisual production. In th…
Against Queer Theory
The author explores how current disciplinary conditions force trans studies against queer theory: Because queer theory is the institutional context through which trans studies is invited into the university, it is also the containing ideological architecture against which trans studies must articulate itself. Trans studies is therefore pressed “against” queer theory as a discursive surface in a manner that limits it from being able to exit this d…
Revisitation: A Trans Phenomenology of the Media Image
How might certain moving images move us into transgender becoming? The recent proliferation of transgender images in the media of the Global North has been widely regarded as supporting transgender political and social equality. But do these images do justice to the complexity of transgender lives? Who are images of transgender identity made for, and whose interests do they serve? Instead of discussing media that produce a transgender object for …
Cinematic/Trans*/Bodies Now (and Then, and to Come)
Looking Transparent
The author compares the portraits of gender and sexuality in the HBO series Looking and the Amazon series Transparent
Looking Transparent
The author compares the portraits of gender and sexuality in the HBO series Looking and the Amazon series Transparent
On Being the Object of Compromise
The 2014 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) conference specifically solicited trans-feminist academic work through a call for proposals subtheme entitled “Trans-Feminisms.” This subtheme called for work exploring how “trans-feminist analyses help us redefine feminist politics” and discussing “opportunities for coalitions and convergences among trans-feminisms without co-opting self-chosen trans*/gender identifications and/or objectifying…
Tongues without Bodies
Sense8 marks a number of televisual “firsts” in the circulation of trans* as an increasingly transnational and translingual identity category. It is not only the first television program to feature a transgender character written/directed by trans creators and acted by a trans performer, but it also attempts to visualize a global imaginary in thrilling new ways that revolutionize both the temporality and spatiality of televisual production. In th…
Revisitation: A Trans Phenomenology of the Media Image
How might certain moving images move us into transgender becoming? The recent proliferation of transgender images in the media of the Global North has been widely regarded as supporting transgender political and social equality. But do these images do justice to the complexity of transgender lives? Who are images of transgender identity made for, and whose interests do they serve? Instead of discussing media that produce a transgender object for …
Cinematic/Trans*/Bodies Now (and Then, and to Come)
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Against Queer Theory
The author explores how current disciplinary conditions force trans studies against queer theory: Because queer theory is the institutional context through which trans studies is invited into the university, it is also the containing ideological architecture against which trans studies must articulate itself. Trans studies is therefore pressed “against” queer theory as a discursive surface in a manner that limits it from being able to exit this d…
Getting Disciplined: What's Trans* About Queer Studies Now
This essay maps the epistemological terrain trans* studies may face as it is widely incorporated into queer studies programs, often housed within women's studies departments. Over the past two decades, queer studies and women's studies have rapidly professionalized, producing new modes of disciplinary power that may seek to either include or cite trans* studies, often without fully welcoming its specific material and political investments. Under …
On the Necessity of Bad Trans Objects
Despite newly affirming images of transgender people proliferating across US visual media, there has been a concomitant rise in anti-transgender attitudes, transphobic legislation, and trans antagonistic violence. The assumption that more and better images of transgender people are key to achieving transgender equality strains under the weight of an emerging contradiction: “good” representation does not necessarily mean reduced social or politica…
Why Trans Cinema Doesn’t Exist
This essay illustrates how queer cinema studies has been structured by a negative co-history with trans that has driven the texts and questions it can take up, the temporalities governing its formation, and the rhetorical shape of its intellectual products. It argues that the ground from which queer cinema studies has traced the evolution of queer cinema – from an outsider form to a now tenuously global force – is terrain established via a cordon…
Escaping the Point: On Trans Visibility and the Art of Edie Fake
Since TIME magazine's declaration of the “transgender tipping point” in 2014, images of transgender identities in US film and television have more than quadrupled. And yet these efforts to make transgender bodies “visible” within popular media often reproduce a tacit cissexist optics that remains intact. Trans activists, creators, and scholars have pointed out that this increased representation offers transgender people a paradox: what seems like…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Transgender (4 works)