Juno Richards is Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Their research focuses on queer/trans studies and the history of sexuality in the long twentieth century. Current writing and teaching projects take up transgender archives, queer feminist science, critical disability studies, and transnational social reproduction.

Richards is working on two new book projects. The XYZ Murders: Life and Death in the Transgender Archives follows a case of serial murders in the 1920s mentioned in the sexological texts of Jennie June. A meditation on violence in the early trans archive, the chapters alternate between an investigation of the crimes and a more expansive accounting of gender variant life worlds before Stonewall. A second book project, This Reckoning: Queer and Trans Durations, turns to the ways that queer/trans artists have interpreted their own genealogies in the wake of Atlantic empire.