Maya Wenzel

Graduate Student

Specialization

Genders and Sexualities
Race and Nation

Education

M.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies (Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2023)
B.S. in Gender & Women’s Studies (Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2021)
B.S. in Psychology (Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2021)

Bio

Maya (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student in Feminist Studies at UCSB. Her previous research
focused on how people who identify on the ace spectrum living in the US are impacted by the
concept of sexual citizenship through an intersectional, transnational feminist, and queer lens.
Expanding on this, Maya is currently interested in the intersections of people who identify as ace
and Korean and how this community navigates their various identities. In her research, she uses
qualitative research as a way to help combat the invisibility, erasure, and epistemic violence
often experienced in the asexuality community. She is also the co-chair of the NWSA Asexuality
Studies Interest Group.

Research

Research interests: Intersectionality, Queer Studies, Asexuality Studies, Queer of Color Critique,
Transnational Feminism, East Asian Studies, Korean Studies, Feminist Pedagogy, Sexual
Citizenship, Absence