Ivy Monroe

Ivy Faye Monroe (she/her) is a 1st year PhD student in the combined American Studies and Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies Program. Her current research is focused on the relationship of contemporary political anxieties around masculinity, whiteness, and privilege to pornography that eroticizes the loss of power. Towards this end, she is currently developing a comparative historiography of feminization erotica, sissy porn, and gender-play pornography to the emergence of the contemporary American political right using the extensive collections of Yale’s Beinecke Library. Ivy holds a M.A. in Geography from the University of Kentucky and a B.Arch from Carnegie Mellon University. Her past research has examined the role of racial and economic privilege in 1960s & 1970s trans periodical publications and their modern organizational successors. Ivy has previously served as a 2023-2024 short-term research fellow with Yale University’s Beinecke Library and worked as an instructor in Gender & Women’s Studies at both the University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University. In addition to her academic work, Ivy has an extensive background in crisis support and peer advocacy with other transgender people, most recently with the Lexington Pride Center and Trans Lifeline.

Areas of Interest: Trans Studies, Trans Theory, Pornography Studies, Queer Theory, Social Theory, Geography, Whiteness, Critical Far-Right Studies