{"id":2458,"date":"2025-10-15T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2458"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:07:49","slug":"tesla-carliani","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/profile\/tesla-carliani\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Carliani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\">Tesla Cariani is a Full-Time Lecturer of Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. As a scholar and teacher of queer and trans visual cultures, Cariani\u2019s research on contemporary media, film, and literature examines how embodiment is fundamentally shaped by the visual. Cariani holds a PhD in English and as well as a certificate in Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University (2021). Before joining the WGS Program at Boston University, Cariani was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Emory University (2021-2022) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University (2022-2024). Cariani\u2019s writing has been published in <i>Parallax<\/i>, <i>PMLA<\/i>, <i>The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader<\/i>\u00a0(winner of the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic\/Scholarly Work), and <i>The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Teaching &amp; Research Interests:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Queer and Trans Theories<\/li>\n<li>LGBTQIA2S+ Film, Media, and Literature<\/li>\n<li>Visual Culture Studies<\/li>\n<li>Cinema Studies<\/li>\n<li>Affect Theory<\/li>\n<li>Postcolonial Studies<\/li>\n<li>Critical Disability Studies<\/li>\n<li>Popular Culture<\/li>\n<li>Histories of Activism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":14697,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2458\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}