Queer Trauma Across Borders

This book reframes trauma as not just a response to violence but a structural condition of queer subjectivity—an aesthetic, affective, and epistemological impasse. Through provocative readings of literature, film, music, and performance, the contributors expose how trauma disorients narrative, troubles identity, and resists the consolations of resolution. Urgent and uncompromising, this book offers a bold rethinking of trauma’s role in queer theory, literary studies, and cultural critique.

Anchit Sathi is a Franco-American independent scholar of comparative literature based in Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London, alongside MAs from the Sorbonne Nouvelle and Fern Universität in Hagen. His research focuses on queer kinship, trauma, and narrative across twentieth- and twenty-first-century world literature. Sathi has published in journals such as Textual Practice, German Life and Letters, Monatshefte, and Comparative Critical Studies, and is the co-editor of a recent essay collection on queer kinship in comparative literature. He has taught at the University of Potsdam and the University of Washington.