Alex Brostoff

Alex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, where they are Affiliated Faculty in Global and Comparative Literature and the Center for Latin American Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar and translator, they study how trans and queer cultural production recasts the relationship between self-figuration and decolonial critique. Their first book, The Autotheory Effect: Hemispheric Returns and the Grammar of Relation, is under advance contract with Columbia University Press. They are co-editor of two volumes: Autotheories (The MIT Press, 2025) and Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical (Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2027). They have guest edited special issues of ASAP/Journal on autotheory (2021) and College Literature on trans literatures (2025). Brostoff has also co-translated a range of critical theory and literary nonfiction from Spanish and Portuguese, including Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak's Ancestral Future (Polity Press, 2024) and the late Brazilian activist Nêgo Bispo's The Earth Gives, the Earth Wants (Polity Press, 2026). Their scholarship and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Diacritics, Representations, TSQ, Critical Times, Dibur, Synthesis, and South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art and elsewhere.