About
Maya Glenn is a fifth-year PhD candidate whose research spans gender and sexuality, Black feminist theory, pleasure, sexual identity, and qualitative methods. Her dissertation explores Black women's subjective experiences of pleasure in everyday life and critically examines dominant epistemologies of pleasure in sociology and Black feminist thought. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Academies’ Ford Foundation Fellowships, and U-M’s Center for the Education of Women+, among other funding sources.
Maya’s paper, “Sex Gets Better with Age?: The Development of Sexual Subjectivity among Straight Black Women,” is currently under review at Sex & Sexualities. She has also co-authored 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.
