Aly W. Corey

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Associate Director for Inclusive Learning Environments

413-597-4605
Davis Center
At Williams since 2021

     Pronouns: they/them/theirs


 


 

Education

B.A. University of Chicago, Music
M.A. Dartmouth College, Liberal Arts
Ph.D. University of Colorado, English/American Studies

Scholarship/Creative Work

Higher Ed Data Should Be Trans Inclusive,” Inside Higher Ed, Jessica Taylor, Daniel Ginsberg, Aly Corey. 2022.

“The Reverberating Flesh: Refiguring Blackness and Sex in Ralph Ellison’s Musical Basements.” The Arizona Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1–32

“Toward a Trans Listening Practice”, Sound/Text, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, November 18, 2020.

“Sounding Out Racial Difference.” Routledge Companion to Sound Studies (ed. Michael Bull), 2019. pp 99-107.


  • Co-Chair, Dively Committee
  • Co-Chair, Trans Inclusion Committee
  • Gordon J. Davis ’63 Social and Racial Justice Fellowships
  • Michael A. Dively ’61 Summer Opportunity Grants
  • Racial Justice Opportunity Grants
  • Minority Coalition Advisor
  • Social Change Film Series Curator
  • Indigeneities, Race, Gender and Sexuality Initiative

 

Aly works closely with students, staff, and faculty across the institution to support inclusivity in the many places where people learn at Williams. Aly leads workshops on increasing accessibility and equity inside and outside of the classroom, interrupting bias in hiring processes, and building capacity to advance DEI within academic and administrative units and student groups. Additionally, they manage fellowships for student-initiated social and racial justice projects; they curate a variety programming on intersectional topics; they advise multiple student affinity groups; and they co-chair campus-wide committees advancing anti-racist, LGBTQ+ inclusion.