About
Maya Glenn is a fourth-year doctoral candidate. She is broadly interested in gender and sexuality, black feminist theory, pleasure, sexual identity, and qualitative methods.
Maya's dissertation examines the social dynamics that shape straight and queer Black women’s relationship to pleasure in the age of social media. She is currently working on a paper in which she uses qualitative interviews to understand how straight Black women come to experience sexual wellbeing outside of marriage in their 30's, 40's, and 50's.
Maya co-published the peer reviewed articles, “Sex Education and the Right to Complex Personhood in Relationships” in Sex Education and "The Domestic Violence Victim as COVID Crisis Figure" in Theory and Society. She also has an essay, “Renaissance was for the Black Queer Lesbians, Too: Renaissance’s Ambivalent Posture and Forming Pleasurable Attachments” accepted for inclusion in the edited volume, The Renaissance Reader: Beyoncé & Black Queer Popular Culture (Routledge).
