Finn Enke
Position title: Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies
Email: finn.enke@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.263.2334
Address:
Office: 5124 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5020 Mosse Humanities
Office Hours: TBA
Website
Joint Appointment: Gender & Women's Studies
Biography
I am the Director of the undergraduate LGBTQ+ Studies Certificate Program. I specialize in history of sexuality and gender, primarily 20th century United States, focusing on transgender, queer and feminist social movements; my work is also animated by queer crip studies, critical race and indigeneity studies, graphic art and comics studies.
Education
Ph.D., 1999, University of Minnesota, Department of History
M.A., 1992, University of Minnesota, Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society
B.A., 1987 Swarthmore College, Religious Studies, Asian Studies.
Books
-
Finn Enke. Transfeminist Perspectives in and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies. Temple University Press, 2012. -
Finn Enke. Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism. Duke University Press, 2007.
Selected Publications
- “Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s: Toward a Less Plausible History” TSQ 2018: 5(1) 9-29.
- “Transgender History and Otherwise Approaches to Queer Embodiment” in Romesburg ed., The Routledge History of Queer America (2018):224-236.
- “Transfeminist Perspectives on History and Pedagogy” Process: A Blog for American History, September 1, 2016.
- “Translation” Transgender Studies Quarterly Vol 1 Issue 1-2 (Summer 2014)
- “The Education of Little Cis: Binary Gender and the Discipline of Opposing Bodies” in The Transgender Studies Reader Volume 2. Routledge Press, 2012.
- “Unlikely Sex Change Capitols of the World: Trinidad, United States, and Tehran, Iran, as Twin Yardsticks of Homonormative Liberalism” (with Elizabeth Bucar). Feminist Studies, 37:2 (Summer) 2011.
- “Smuggling Sex Throough the Gates: Race, Sexuality, and Contested Space in Second Wave Feminism,” American Quarterly vol. 55 number 4 (December) 2003.
- “Taking Over Domestic Space: The Battered Women’s Movement and Public Protest, 1971-1985” in Van Grosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America. Temple University, 2003.
History Courses
- History 275 – Topics in LGBT History: The Long Civil Rights Movement and Queer History – Syllabus 2021 (pdf)
- History 275 – Topics in LGBT History: Queer 20th Century – Syllabus 2019 (pdf)
- History 346 – Trans/Gender in Historical Perspective – Spring 2019 (pdf)
- History 519 – Sexual Modernities and Queer/Two Spirit Pedagogies – Syllabus 2020 (pdf)
- History 938 – History of Sexuality (Queer History, Queer Theory) – Syllabus 2021 (pdf)