teddy lance, ph.d.

hello! you've found a vestigial structure from when i was told to self-promote in order to be hired in academia. tune back in as it slowly becomes a site of further joy rather than an expression of our collective dystopian nightmare.

i'm a poet, adjunct professor of English, and organizer for trans poetry in Huichin, the unceded ancestral land of the Lisjan (Ohlone) people.

research: i study the intersection of racial capitalism, coloniality and humanism through U.S. performance cultures. i'm currently working on a manuscript that tells a cultural history of liberal white humanity through the study of American Shakespeare performances in the late 19th and early 20th century and their intersection with ideas of civilization, progress, and a racialized "savagery." other research interests include Black American literature and performance, settler colonialism, queer and trans poetics, and prison education.

poetry: i'm a proud member of Oakland's Trans Poetry Workshop and contributing editor of the recent anthology Distilled Devotion (2025). Other work has been published in Shelf Magazine (no. 1; 2025) and TurkxTaylor’s 2025 Trans Day of Visibility poetry zine, which i co-edited and organized with TxT buds. <3