Bridging the Rainbow Gap: Possibilities and Tensions in Queer and Trans Studies in Education

Growing out of a series of discussions and gatherings over the course of more than two years, Bridging the Rainbow Gap is a collection of chapters and response essays that take up key tensions, gaps, and possibilities in queer and trans scholarship in education. Working across K-12, higher education, and other education disciplines, the authors in the volume take up themes of identity development, ethnography, young adult literature, queer joy, queer potentiality, ideology, emerging issues in trans studies, whiteness in queer studies, and futures in queer and trans studies. Collectively, the book serves as an invitation into generative conversations about what queer and trans studies are, what they can be, and what they might do in education.

Antonio Duran, Ph.D. (2019), The Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University. His research focuses on understanding how historical and contemporary legacies of oppression influence college student development, experiences, and success.

Kamden K. Strunk, Ph.D. (2012), Oklahoma State University, is Associate Professor of Research Methodology in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research focuses research methodologies, especially critical quantitative methodologies, as applied to the study of queer studies and anti-racism in education.

​​​Ryan Schey, Ph.D. (2018), The Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of English Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia. His research examines literacy and language practices and social change in schools, focusing on LGBTQIA+ youth and the educators who work with them.