William-Claire Younts is a PhD student studying nineteenth-century American literature. Their dissertation in progress considers gender/sex transition as a constitutive element of all maturation. Will has given or will give papers at C19: the Society of Nineteenth‐Century Americanists, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, the American Studies Association, and the American Literature Association. In February 2026, Transgender Studies Quarterly published their article on Lillie Devereux Blake’s novel Fettered For Life (1874).