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.