Manchester University Press recently announced their new Queer and Trans Histories book series which is now seeking submissions of completed manuscripts. The series will be edited by Matthew Cook, Jennifer V. Evans, and Patricio Simonetto.

Zimbabwean and South African academic Gibson Ncube is part of the series advisory board alongside a number of international scholars. He holds a PhD from Stellenbosch University in South Africa where he lectures in the department of Modern Foreign Languages.

Ncube has published widely in the fields of African comparative literature, gender and queer studies as well as cultural studies.  He is the author of La sexualité queer au Maghreb à travers la literature (2018) and Queer Bodies in African Films (2022). Ncube’s years of expert research on queerness makes him particularly qualified to curate the manuscripts to be published in this series.

The Queer and Trans Histories series

aims to serve as a go-to place for cutting-edge stories on earlier and existing LGBTQ+ formations, and encourages work on queer and trans lives that challenge identity frameworks. Spanning premodern to modern eras, global perspectives, and across genders and sexualities, it explores intersections of age, race, class, religion, disability, and more…The series welcomes empirically grounded work and those deploying a range of sources and approaches to explore intimacy, emotion, gaps, silences and subjectivity.

Read more about the series and submission guidelines here!