![]() He began teaching English at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010 and currently holds the position of Lecturer II. Salzer’s current research interests include “passing” narratives and representations of the female suicide in American literature. Chapters are devoted to women who fought as male soldiers in the American Revolution female slaves who escaped by “passing” as white men homeless girls who survived life on the streets by wearing boys’ clothes and white criminals who used blackface and women’s clothing to avoid detection and shift blame. ![]() ![]() ![]() His dissertation, “Cross Purposes: Transvestic Figures in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture,” examines real and fictional examples of cross-dressers who superficially and strategically altered not only their gender but often their race and/or class as well. Kenneth Salzer (he/him/his) received his doctorate from the University of Rochester in 2002. ![]()
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