Tp Coughlin
they/them/theirs
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
PhD in English from the University of California, Davis (2026)
Selected Publications
- “The Queer Relationality of Modular Calculus: Difference and Worldbuilding in Samuel Delany’s (Theory of) Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies, forthcoming.
- "Utopia and the End of Genderlessness in Theodore Sturgeon’s Venus Plus X," Utopian Studies. 37, no 2, 2026.
- "Proliferating Feminisms and the Irruption of the Material in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina." In Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Hell's Under New Management, edited by Cori Mathis et al., Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023.
Honors
- 2025: Dean’s Summer Graduate Support Award. UC Davis.
- 2024-2025: Ruth Stephans Fellowship. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- 2023: Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon.
- 2021: Unhatching Research Award. HATCH: A Feminist Arts & Science Shop, UC Davis.
Bio
Tp Coughlin is the Humanities Center Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Rochester. Their manuscript-in-progress, Forming the Formless: Speculative Genders and the Pre-history of Nonbinary Identity, analyzes the way gender was speculatively reimagined in the decades after WWII in welfare regulation, case law, economic theory, and speculative fiction. Drawing on queer of color materialist theories and queer formalism, they attend to how these speculations not only responded to social and material crises at the time but also produced the conditions of possibility for nonbinary identity to emerge in the 21st century.
Fields and Interests
- Trans studies
- Queer of Color Critique
- Marxism
- Speculative fiction