Works

Bio



Miriam Mason is a transfeminine writer and researcher based in New York City. Her work is interested in the interrelation of black and trans cultural production, particilularly in the 20th century. Her honors thesis, “N.H. Pritchard and a Trans Method of Reading,” won the 2025 Queer Studies Award of Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Sex and Gender.  A preliminary draft of her thesis, “Where Blackness and Transness Leave,” recieved the 2024 Queer Studies Award.

Her previous research project, “Becoming Woman: the Female Impersonation of Julian Eltinge,” was a honorable mention of the 2023 Women’s and Gender Studies award of the Women’s and Gender Studies Award at Columbia’s ISSG. 

She is a recent graduate of Columbia Univerisity’s English and Gender Studies programs and is currently a research assistant for Professor C. Riley Snorton.
Works

Review of The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang, The Columbia Review, Sept. 2022

“The Slug Gaze: Discourse, Discipline, and The Live Slug Reaction Meme,” The Gadfly, Dec. 2022

“Narcissus Poeticus,” featured poem in Neologism Poetry Journal, Dec. 2022.

“Trans(lucent)-Femme,” Hoot, Dec. 2022.

Review of Bad Education by Lee Edelman, The Columbia Review, Jan. 2023.

“From One Place, Towards Another,” Blue & White Magazine, Mar. 2023.

“Your Scythe is Sooo Big!: The Deaths, Desires, and Dreams of Whiteness in Don DeLillo’s White Noise,” Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, 2023.

Review of The Consipiracist Manifesto by Anonymous, The Columbia Review, Sept. 2023.

“Inventing the Aesthetics of Trans-Femininity,” The Isis Magazine, July 2024.

“It’s Time to Talk About Transphobia,” The Columbia Spectator, Feb. 2025.

Review of Dysphoria Mundi by Paul Preciado, The Columbia Review, May 2025.

“Reading For Trans Women in Zadie Smith,” Writing Badly, forthcoming.

“Where Blackness and Transness Leave,” Que(e)y Collective, forthcoming.





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