Jonathan Alexander
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He has published twenty-two books in the fields of writing studies, sexuality studies, and new media. His most recent scholarly monograph is Writing & Desire: Queer Ways of Composing (Pittsburgh UP), featuring work on a range of queer writers, artists, and media makers, including Edmund White, David Wojnarowicz, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Octavia Butler, the Wachowski Sisters...See more
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He has published twenty-two books in the fields of writing studies, sexuality studies, and new media. His most recent scholarly monograph is Writing & Desire: Queer Ways of Composing (Pittsburgh UP), featuring work on a range of queer writers, artists, and media makers, including Edmund White, David Wojnarowicz, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Octavia Butler, the Wachowski Sisters, and others. Alexander also writes creative nonfiction/autotheory, and has published the CREEP trilogy, consisting of Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology (punctum); Bullied: The Story of an Abuse (punctum); and Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir (Acre Books) and a standalone book, Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot (Fordham UP). Creep was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; Bullied won a gold medal IPPY award; Dear Queer Self was an INDIES Finalist for Autobiography & Memoir; and Stroke Book won a Lavender Rhetorics Awards. See less
