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Sam Davis is an Adjunct Associate Professor of English at Barnard College, affiliated with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and American Studies departments. He holds a Ph.D. candidacy in English at UMass Amherst, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Gender Studies and Economics from Smith College. His research focuses on constructing a trans literary history through the Black Arts Movement, analyzing works by Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison to explore trans literary aesthetics and subject-object dynamics. Davis is a multi-disciplinary scholar, filmmaker, and musician, whose auto-ethnographic documentary In Our Own Words: On Being Trans at Smith (2017) received the Valeria Dean Burgess Stevens Prize and GLAAD recognition. His expertise spans queer and trans theory, Black feminist thought, disability studies, and contemporary literature.
His teaching includes First-Year Writing courses at Barnard, alongside prior roles in UMass Amherst’s College Writing and English departments. Beyond academia, Davis’ creative work bridges activism and scholarship, reflecting his commitment to intersectional critical frameworks.
