Cris Beam
Part-time Faculty
cab18@nyu.edu
429 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Tuesday 11:00-12:00
B.A., Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994
M.F.A., Creative Nonfiction, Columbia University, 2005
Cris Beam is the author of Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Harcourt, 2007), which won a Lambda Literary Award and was a Stonewall Honor Book. Her second book, I Am J, is a young adult novel released from Little Brown in March 2011. Cris Beam’s book, To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013. Her work has appeared in many national magazines as well as on the public radio program This American Life. Beam teaches beginning and advanced creative nonfiction writing courses at Gallatin, as well as a course on family memoir, and her research interests are in gender and LGBT studies, urban subcultures, urban poverty and social justice, prison writing and madness. In addition to NYU, Beam also teaches at Columbia University, The New School and Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility in New York.
Teaching and Research Interests
literary nonfiction; memoir; urban journalism; gender research; prison writing
Courses
2023 Fall
First-Year Writing Seminar: The Self in its Spaces
2022 Fall
First-Year Writing Seminar: The Self in its Spaces
2016 Spring
2014 Spring
2013 Spring
2013 Fall
2012 Summer
