Che Gossett is a Black non-binary writer. They are currently the associate director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and a 2024 Creative Capital Andy Warhol Writers Grant recipient. In May 2024 they completed their three year postdoctoral position as the Racial Justice Fellow at the Initiative for a Just Society, Columbia Law School. From 2022-2024 Che was visiting fellow at Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy Program. In 2023 Che was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, in Art History at Corpus Christi and the Centre for Visual Culture. In 2022 Che was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Life Writing, Wolfson College, Oxford University.
Che is an alum of the Whitney Independent Study Program. They co-edited a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke UP) with professor Eva Hayward, on trans in a time of HIV/AIDS. With queer art historian David Getsy, Che co-edited a syllabus on trans and non binary methods for Art Journal which just recently received the 2022 CAA Art Journal Award. Che was a 2022-2023 Ruth Stephan Fellowship in the Yale Collection of American Literature at Beinecke Library, Yale University.
In May 2024, Che published an article on the work of Black diasporic and British artist John Akomfrah, in Transition journal, a publication of the Harvard University Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Finally, Che is currently co-editing a special issue of Social Text journal with Yale American, African American, Theater and Performance Studies professor Tavia Nyong’o, on Caribbean philosopher Sylvia Wynter, culture and technics. They also recently were awarded a Warhol Creative Capital grant.
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