Damage

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.