Abraham Weil

Abraham Weil
  • Assistant Professor
  • General Editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Contact Info

323 Blake Hall

Biography —

Abraham Weil holds his PhD from University of Arizona and is currently an assistant professor in the department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Kansas.

Education

Ph.D., Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona

M.A., Gender and Women’s Studies, Rutgers

B.A., Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Redlands

Research —

Teaching

Teaching Interests

  • Continental philosophy
  • Transgender theory
  • Sexuality
  • Black political movements
  • Aesthetics
  • Feminist theory
  • Queer theory
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Foucauldian biopolitics
  • Abolition

Research

Research Interests

  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
  • Poststructuralism
  • Marxism
  • Revolution
  • Black trans feminist theory

Service

Abraham has served in several capacities with a focus on domestic violence prevention, LGBTQ youth services, HIV/AIDS services and LGBTQ healthcare, and sustainability efforts. Most recently, he serves as a board member at Radiant Health Centers, an LGBTQ healthcare center in Irvine, CA and as a member of the Black Academic Council for the Committee for a Greater Los Angeles.

Selected Publications —

Weil, Abraham and Camillah Hicks, Victor Ultra Omni, and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi. "'Freer than we want to be': On Marquis Bey's Black Trans Feminism", The Black Scholar, 2023.

Weil, Abraham. "'Transversal Tipping Points," in Critical Inquiry. Durham: Duke University Press. 2023.

Weil, Abraham B., Nikki Sullivan, and Katrina Jaworski eds. A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory, Second Edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Forthcoming 2023.

Weil, Abraham B. “Transmolecular Revolution,” in Trans Studies in Deleuze and Guattari: A Schizoanalytic Application​. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2021.

Weil, Abraham B. “Cosmopolitics in Drag,” in Making Middles Matter: Feminist Methodologies in-between New Materialisms and Intersectionality. New York, NY: Routledge Press. 2021.

Weil, Abraham B. “Transversal Animacies,” in Tranimacies: Intimate Links Between Animal and Trans* Studies. New York, NY: Routledge Press. 2020.

Weil, Abraham B. “The Phenomenon of Forgetting,” in Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Volume 22. 2020.