Michael M. Weinstein

Bio

Michael M. Weinstein teaches at New York University. His research interests include modern and contemporary poetry, visual culture and media history, queer and transgender studies, and disability studies. He is currently at work on a scholarly project entitled Wings of Hypothesis: Modernist Poetry’s Revolutionary Bodies. His debut poetry collection, Saint Consequence, was published by Alice James Books in August 2025.

Contributions

Reading Against the Frame: Photomontage and Trans Aesthetics in the Russian Avant-Garde

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From the Print Journal

© 2025 Johns Hopkins University Press Towards a Trans Modernism: Material Discontinuities, (Re)imagined Histories Avant-garde art and transgender identification begin from a common crisis of representation: a sense that, in Jacques Rancière’s words, “[t]here is something unpresentable at the heart of thought which wishes to give itself material form.” [1] In diverse instances of modernist cultural production and trans gender alike, such a recognition spurs attempts to reconfigure the contours of...

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