EDUCATION

2026 (expected) Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Performance Studies/Science and Technology Studies

2011 M.F.A., San Francisco State University, Creative Writing

2000 B.A., San Francisco State University, English

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2025-2026. Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship

2024. Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University

2024. Ellen Hansen Memorial Scholarship, Women's Resources and Research Center, UC Davis

2023. Summer Research Fellowship, UCD Performance Studies Program

2022-26. California State University Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program

2023-24 UC Humanities Research Institute, Working Group on Queer Refuge

2022-23. Davis Humanities Institute, Working Group Grant for Queer, Trans STS

2021 UC Davis HATCH: Mellon Research Initiative in Feminist Arts and Sciences

2021. UCD Graduate Student Association Travel Award

2015. Lambda Literary Award, Lambda Literary Foundation

TEACHING

2017-22 San Francisco State University, Women and Gender Studies, Lecturer

2012-17. Pratt Institute, Humanities and Media Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor

2012-15 Hunter College, Women and Gender Studies, Lecturer

INVITED TALKS

2022 “An Inclusive Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health for Trans and Gender Diverse Patients,” Improving OUTcomes, UC Davis Health

2021 “An Intersectional Approach to Queer and Trans Reproduction and Sexual Health,” UC Davis School of Nursing

2020 “Queer and Trans Relationships and Sexualities,” Guest Lecture, Feminist and Gender Studies Department, Stanford University

2020 “Queering Care and Mutual Aid,” Guest Lecture, Feminist and Gender Studies Department, Stanford University

2017 “Trans Lives on Screen,” Currents in Queer Media Series,Pratt Institute

2012 “Equal Time: Gays, Media and the Myth of Equality,” Indiana University

2011. “Feminist Pornography,” University of Maryland

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2025 “Against Legibility,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Puerto Rico

2024 “Transgender Politics and Fetal Imaginaries,” Annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, Detroit

2023 “ Performance as Method: Feminist Interventions in Health Justice,” Annual meeting of the Society for the Social Study of Science, Honolulu

2023 “Feminist Performance and Social Justice Health Studies,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Montreal

2022 “Pharmacological Futures and Queer Ecologies of Care,” European SummerSchool for Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam

2021 “Writing Bodily Intimacy in a Time of Separation,” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Remote

2021 “In Our Bodies,” Performance as Practice and Research Working Group, Performing Proximity, UCLA Performance Studies Program

2021 “Writing as Research,” UC Davis Performance Studies Annual Symposium

2018 “What Would an HIV Doula Do?” Queering Care and Cure, UC Davis

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2025-26 Project Manager, Imagine Technoscience, Yale University

2021-22 Graduate Researcher for NSF Funded Research Project Narrating Autoimmunity: Biographies of Illness

2020-2024 Facilitator, UC Davis, Feminist Research Institute, NSF Funded Program: Asking Different Questions: Anti-racist approaches to scientific research

SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP

2015-Now Co-Founder, What Would an HIV Doula Do?

2022-23 Feminist STS Research Cluster, PI, UC Davis Humanities Institute

2021-22 Co-organizer, Spring Symposium, UC Davis Performance Studies

2020-22 Board Secretary, Small Press Traffic Literary Arts

2018 Jury Member, The Robert Giard Fellowship

2016-18 Board Member, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, CUNY

2014-15 Jury Member, Millay Colony Residency, Nonfiction Category

MEDIA AND EDITORIAL WORK

2006-10 Editor, Velvetpark magazine, New York

2009-10 Editor, GO magazine, New York

2005-09 On-Air Personality, SiriusXM, New York

2007-09 Series Regular, Here TV, New York

2000-05 Editor, On Our Backs magazine, San Francisco

Diana Cage

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