Ivy Monroe

Ivy Faye Monroe (she/her) is a 2nd year PhD student in American Studies and Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies with a Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. Her doctoral research works across American studies, trans studies, the history of medicine, and the study of the far-Right to examine the relationship of contemporary political anxieties around masculinity, whiteness, and privilege to pornography that eroticizes the loss of power, particularly feminization erotica, sissy porn, and gender-play pornography. Ivy holds an M.A. in Geography from the University of Kentucky and a B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University. She has previously worked as an instructor in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University and served as a research fellow with Yale’s Beinecke Library. In addition to her academic work, Ivy has an extensive background in crisis support and peer advocacy with other transgender people.