Chandan Reddy of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at UW and C. Riley Snorton of the University of Chicago have been appointed as the new co-editors of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. They each serve a five-year term, which for Reddy runs from 2022 to 2027, working to shepherd submitted articles and special issues through the peer-review and publication process and to advance critical inquiry that addresses the continually shifting dynamics of the field. Beginning with its inaugural issue, published in 1993, GLQ has been the leading scholarly publication in LGBT Studies and Queer Studies. Widely read, the interdisciplinary journal is credited for intellectual transformations and institutional reckoning that have impacted all fields of knowledge, while promoting the values of critique and antagonism in relation to settled methods and knowledge.
Reddy and Snorton have already begun their work in earnest, and this service to the field, and especially to an upcoming generation of scholars, extends their commitment to the collective work of radical thought and transformative social justice on local and global scales. They hope to use their time as co-editors to push the journal to further reinvent its questions and objects by publishing work in, on, and from queer and trans of color communities as well as the many sexualized and gendered lifeworlds across the global South.
Another extension of Prof. Reddy’s GLQ editorship will be a new 400-level course, jointly offered by Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and Comparative History of Ideas (CHID). This offering, Emergent Formations in Queer Studies, will introduce upper-level undergraduates as well as graduate students to the latest scholarship.