Forschungsinteressen
- Sexuelles Begehren
- Sexuelle Unterschiede
- Gleichgeschlechtliche Anziehung
- Psychoanalyse
- Materielle Kultur und Gebaute Umwelt
- Theater und Dramaturgie
- Sound und Musik
- Amerikanische Geschichte
- Kritische Theorie und Geschichtsphilosophie
- Ästhetik
Vita
PhD, American Studies, Yale University (2017)
- Graduate Certificate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Dissertation: The Forgotten Union of the Two Henrys: A History of the "Peculiar and Rarest Intimacy" of the American Civil War
MA, American Studies, Yale University (2012)
MPhil, American Studies, Yale University (2012)
BA, Dartmouth College (2007)
- Senior Fellow (Senior Fellowships werden als Auszeichnungen für besonders herausragende Projekte vergeben)
- Thesis: Better Safe Than Gay: How the Imperative to “Be Safe” Has Increased the Danger of Being Gay
Projekt
Der vergessene Bund der zwei Henrys: Eine Geschichte der „sonderbaren und seltensten Innigkeit“ im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg
Ausgewählte Literatur
Bücher
- 2013: “You Can Tell Just By Looking”: And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People,
in Zusammenarbeit mit Michael Bronski und Ann Pellegrini, Boston: Beacon
Press
* Finalist for 2013 Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Nonfiction
* Starred Publishers Weekly review
* Excerpted in The Nation, Slate, Salon, Huffington Post, and Religion Dispatches
Aufsätze
- 2017: “The Pulpit of Henry Trumbull,” Experience, Edited by Alexander Nemerov, Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, pp. 78-98
- 2011: “James Mars,” “Prudence Crandall,” and “Marian Anderson,” historical meditations on sites along the Connecticut Freedom Trail, “Freedom’s Journey: Poems and Meditations on African American Legacies in Connecticut," Curated by Laura Wexler and Elizabeth Alexander, a project of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, privately printed
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2006: “Whorified Virgins: Gay Youth and
Sex,” Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, 2nd Edition, Edited
by Mindy Stombler, et. al. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, pp. 212-216
Rezensionen/Essays
- 2018: "Melodrama and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage: How what we think is at the mercy of how we feel," including review of Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas by David Collins, The Common Reader
- 2017: "Abraham Lincoln’s Best Friend: President Lincoln’s remarkable male friendship and the boundaries of 19th-century sex," including review of Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed by Charles Strozier, The Common Reader
- 2017: "Gay Liberation as the Quest For Community: A new book provides a different take on gay American history," including review of Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation by Jim Downs, The Common Reader
- 2010: Review of Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities by Julie Abraham, Lambda Literary Review
- 2010: Review of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century by Kathryn Bond Stockton, Lambda Literary Review
Interviews mit Autoren neuer Bücher aus den o.g. Forschungsgebieten (podcasts, New Books Network)
"Networked Connections: Exploring Emily Dickinson in 1862," (special podcast für C19 [The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists], Texte und Töne (die menschliche Stimme, Umgebungsgeräusche, künstlich erzeugte Töne und Stille) werden zusammengebracht, um zu untersuchen, wie eng Bedeutungen und Gefühle an Klänge geknüpft sind und wie sie durch Klänge verändert werden können.