Erique Zhang

Affiliate
Written By Selly Djap

Assistant Professor, Digital Publics & Promotional Cultures

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Erique Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Digital Publics and Promotional Cultures in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Their research examines how images of trans women and femmes of color circulate in the fashion, beauty, and entertainment industries and what these images communicate about race, gender, and trans identity.

Zhang co-founded the Center for Applied Transgender Studies with TJ Billard and Avery Everhart. They are also an affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies. Zhang holds a PhD in Media, Technology, and Society from Northwestern University.

Selected Publication

Featured
“She is as feminine as my mother, as my sister, as my biologically female friends”: On the promise and limits of transgender visibility in fashion media
Peer-reviewed
“She is as feminine as my mother, as my sister, as my biologically female friends”: On the promise and limits of transgender visibility in fashion media
Peer-reviewed

Erique Zhang

Mar 2023 • Communication, Culture and Critique 16(1), 25-32

Peer-reviewed
Whither Trans Studies?: On Fields, Post-Disciplines, and the Need for an Applied Transgender Studies
Peer-reviewed
Whither Trans Studies?: On Fields, Post-Disciplines, and the Need for an Applied Transgender Studies
Peer-reviewed

Thomas J Billard, Avery R. Everhart, Erique Zhang

Jun 2022 • Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies 1(1-2), 1-18

Peer-reviewed
“I don’t just want to look female; I want to be beautiful”: theorizing passing as labor in the transition vlogs of Gigi Gorgeous and Natalie Wynn
Peer-reviewed
“I don’t just want to look female; I want to be beautiful”: theorizing passing as labor in the transition vlogs of Gigi Gorgeous and Natalie Wynn
Peer-reviewed

Erique Zhang

Mar 2022 • Feminist Media Studies, 1-16 • Routledge

Peer-reviewed
Towards a Transgender Critique of Media Representation
Peer-reviewed
Towards a Transgender Critique of Media Representation
Peer-reviewed

Thomas J. Billard and Erique Zhang

Jan 2022 • Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61(2):194-199

Peer-reviewed
Social Media Influencers
Peer-reviewed
Social Media Influencers
Peer-reviewed

Erique Zhang

Edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn

Apr 2021 • The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies

Peer-reviewed
Fashion as Collective Action
Public Scholarship
Fashion as Collective Action
Public Scholarship

Erique Zhang

Oct 2020 • Fashion Studies Journal

Public Scholarship
Rethinking (and Retheorizing) Transgender Media Representation
Peer-reviewed
Rethinking (and Retheorizing) Transgender Media Representation
Peer-reviewed

A Roundtable Discussion

Thomas J. Billard, Traci B. Abbott, Oliver L. Haimson, Kelsey N. Whipple, Stephenson Brooks Whitestone and Erique Zhang

Aug 2020 • International Journal of Communication 14:4494-4507

Peer-reviewed
Memoirs of a GAY! Sha: Race and Gender Performance on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Peer-reviewed
Memoirs of a GAY! Sha: Race and Gender Performance on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Peer-reviewed

Erique Zhang

Apr 2016 • Studies in Costume and Performance 1(1):59-75

Peer-reviewed

Media Appearance

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