Biography

Jacob R. Lau holds a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley, and a M.T.S. in Women, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion from Harvard Divinity School. Lau’s work theorizes transgender through through postcolonial, queer of color, and historical materialist theorizations of time and historicism that push against and suggest alternatives to purely linear temporalities, situating trans within traditions of temporal critique, and affective histories of non-normative embodiment. His dissertation is entitled, Between the Times: Trans-Temporality and Historical Representation. Along with Cameron Partridge, he is the editor of Dr. Laurence Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka’s 1962 memoir Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions (Fordham University Press, 2016) for which he also co-authored an introduction.