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Watch a brief video presentation on my new book, Queer Ventennio. Produced for Penn State University’s English Program’s 2020 Alternative Fall English Conference, it highlights the book’s argument.

In light of the #metoo movement, I have been, like many men, re-visiting my own sexual history. But because I identify as queer, the stakes are different. For, according to one thread of #metoo’s logic, when I examine my conscience,…

This fall, for the very first time, I began a class by asking students for their preferred pronouns. It was a class in LGBTQ Studies, and, for some time now, colleagues at other institutions had been making convincing cases for…

I’m in Italy for the summer, and my friends on facebook tend to be pretty queer-friendly, so apparently I have been missing some kind of media (social and mass) frenzy around Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair Annie Leibovitz photo shoot. Laverne…

Some writers have a rule: never write anything negative about another scholar’s work. Some have another: never answer your critics. I was recently accused of having “race fatigue.” The specific charge, leveled against Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Joan Scott, and…