Jasper J. Verlinden (he/they) is a postdoctoral lecturer in the department of English and American Studies with emphasis on Postcolonial Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and an associate member in the ERC Consolidator Grant Project “Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary.” He has recently completed his dissertation project which reads late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ethnic minority literatures from the U.S. in relation to bureaucratic and administrative archives and practices. Within this project, his interest lay in ascertaining if and how racialized minority authors engaged with and responded to such administrative practices and the restrictive demarcating lines of population management. His postdoc project is on contemporary trans poetry and poetics.

Verlinden has published on trans studies, affect and disability, and legal personhood in the context of border crossings.Recent publications include “Monstrous Intersectionalities” in Handbook of Disability: Critical Thought and Social Change in a Globalizing World, edited by Marcia H. Rioux, Alexis Buettgen, Ezra Zubrow, and José Viera (Springer, 2024); “When the Facts Reach the Sphere of the Law” with Agata Stajer and Agnieszka Kilian, in Dreams & Dramas: Law as Literature, edited by Agnieszka Kilian (NGBK, 2018); “On Affect Theory’s Hidden Histories: Toward a Technological Genealogy” in American Quarterly (2017). He also co-edited a special issue on Representing Trans for EJES (European Journal of English Studies) with Elahe Haschemi Yekani and Anson Koch-Rein (2020) and a volume titled, Fictions of Management: Efficiency and Control in American Literature and Culture with James Dorson (Winter, 2019).

Contact: jasper.verlinden@hu-berlin.de

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