Sam Davis
PhD in Literature
Graduate Student Bio
Sam Davis is a trans critical theorist, literary scholar, filmmaker, and musician. His research is at the intersection of Trans studies, Black studies, and Disability studies, with a focus on the relationship between social abjection and prosthesis. His auto-ethnographic documentary thesis, "In Our Own Words: On Being Trans at Smith" (2017) has received various awards, including the Valeria Dean Burgess Stevens Prize at Smith College, as well as being the Feature Film at GLAAD’s Spring Film Festival in 2018. Sam is currently a doctoral candidate in the English department as well as an instructor in the writing program.
Research Interests: Trans studies, Black studies, Disability studies, object-oriented-ontology, Critical Social Theory, Queer studies, Modern American Literature