Research Interests
Travesti/Trans* Studies; Latin American Literature, History, and Culture; Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; Chicanx and Latine Studies; Disability Studies, Transnational Feminisms, Decolonial Thought, LGBTQ Studies, Care Studies
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spanish, Designation of Latin American Literature and Culture, Minor Certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies
M.A., Spanish, Generalized Hispanic Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Spanish, University of Iowa
Awards and Honors
Transgender Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023-2025
GLBT Alumni Council of the Wisconsin Alumni Association, Research Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
Tinker-Nave Field Research Grant, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
Matthew Shepard Scholarship, Gold Scholar Recipient, 2006-2010
Iowa Friends of Civil Rights Award, 2005
Courses Taught
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
GWS 470: Transgender Studies Seminar, Decolonizing Gender: Trans* Literature, History, and Politics in the Americas
University of Wisconsin-Madison:
GWS 101 Gender, Women, and Cultural Representation
GWS 103 Gender, Women, Bodies, and Health
GWS 343 Queer Bodies: (Dis)ability, Sexuality, and Gendered Embodiment
GWS 350 Transnational Queer and Trans* Literature in the Americas
GWS 538 LGBTQ+ Health and Healthcare in the Americas
Highlighted Publications
Frerichs, Emi (2022). “Towards a Travesti Subjectivity and System of Aesthetics within Argentinean Literature: Trasheo Travesti, Irreverence, and Bold Visions for a New Humanity.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, pp. 303-323.
Recent Publications
Forthcoming:
Frerichs, Emi (2024). "El neobarroso’s Filthy Legacies: Subverting Neoliberal Sex, Desire, and NecropoliticalTravesti Death in Naty Menstrual’s Continuadísimo," Hispanófila Special Issue: (Trans) Archivos y Memoria Política LGBTQ+ en el Cono Sur. Forthcoming March 2024, article MS 20 pp.
Frerichs, Emi (2024). “Care for Anger: Trans*, (Dis)abled, and Reparative Approaches to Rage,” in Rhetorics of Care: Crisis, Communication, and Community, eds. Christine Garlough, Kelly Happe, and Stuart J. Murray. Forthcoming 2024, chapter MS 20 pp.