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Laura Borchert
Laura Borchert is an academic activist whose research is situated in queer studies, queer legal theory, law and X and American cultural studies. She works as a research assistant in the English Department at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany. For her Ph.D. project ‘Beyond Bostock, towards a new queer rights’, she analyses how sexual orientation as a legal–cultural category is constitutionally protected in the United States, and how law and culture imagine and constitute queer subjects. Her co-authored article ‘Narrative authority, affective unreliability, and transing law’, written with Greta Olson, was recently published in the Research Handbook on Law and Literature (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022).
Contact: English Department, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B, Room B 337, 35394 Giessen, Germany.