Z Nicolazzo is an assistant professor in the Adult and Higher Education program, and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, both at Northern Illinois University, USA. Dr. Nicolazzo’s research focuses on mapping gender across college contexts, with a particular emphasis on affirmative and resilience-based research alongside trans* students. Dr. Nicolazzo’s first book, Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, details an 18-month critical collaborative ethnography with trans* collegians.

• Introduction: what’s transgressive about trans* studies in education now? 1. Changing the frame: queering access to higher education for trans* students 2. Resisting coherence: trans men’s experiences and the use of grounded theory methods 3. Trans*forming college masculinities: carving out trans*masculine pathways through the threshold of dominance 4. A thousand words are worth a picture: a snapshot of trans* postsecondary educators in higher education 5. Trans*versing the DMZ: a non-binary autoethnographic exploration of gender and masculinity 6. An exploration of trans* kinship as a strategy for student success 7. Trans* movement/trans* moment: an afterword

Z Nicolazzo is an assistant professor in the Adult and Higher Education program, and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, both at Northern Illinois University, USA. Dr. Nicolazzo’s research focuses on mapping gender across college contexts, with a particular emphasis on affirmative and resilience-based research alongside trans* students. Dr. Nicolazzo’s first book, Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, details an 18-month critical collaborative ethnography with trans* collegians.

• Introduction: what’s transgressive about trans* studies in education now? 1. Changing the frame: queering access to higher education for trans* students 2. Resisting coherence: trans men’s experiences and the use of grounded theory methods 3. Trans*forming college masculinities: carving out trans*masculine pathways through the threshold of dominance 4. A thousand words are worth a picture: a snapshot of trans* postsecondary educators in higher education 5. Trans*versing the DMZ: a non-binary autoethnographic exploration of gender and masculinity 6. An exploration of trans* kinship as a strategy for student success 7. Trans* movement/trans* moment: an afterword

Z Nicolazzo is an assistant professor in the Adult and Higher Education program, and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, both at Northern Illinois University, USA. Dr. Nicolazzo’s research focuses on mapping gender across college contexts, with a particular emphasis on affirmative and resilience-based research alongside trans* students. Dr. Nicolazzo’s first book, Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, details an 18-month critical collaborative ethnography with trans* collegians.

• Introduction: what’s transgressive about trans* studies in education now? 1. Changing the frame: queering access to higher education for trans* students 2. Resisting coherence: trans men’s experiences and the use of grounded theory methods 3. Trans*forming college masculinities: carving out trans*masculine pathways through the threshold of dominance 4. A thousand words are worth a picture: a snapshot of trans* postsecondary educators in higher education 5. Trans*versing the DMZ: a non-binary autoethnographic exploration of gender and masculinity 6. An exploration of trans* kinship as a strategy for student success 7. Trans* movement/trans* moment: an afterword