Ranked Best of 2024!

18 December 2024

The Financial Times listed my piece about the Mexico City subway as one of the best articles of the year!

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“The Nonstop Gay Sex Party on the CDMX Subway”

2 December 2024

A portion of my subway-sex research appeared in The Nation.

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Lecture at the XVII Seminario Histórico LGBTTTIQ Mexicano

5 October 2024

Presenting a lecture on my ongoing research about the figure of the “chacal” or jackal in Mexican gay culture and world literature and cinema!

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Garbagefest

23 November 2023

My brief essay on historicizing the “Cumsock” appeared in Garbage as part of Garbagefest in Auckland.

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Lecture at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

26 April 2023

I’m attending a symposium, “400 años del First Folio de Shakespeare.” And I’m giving a lecture about my favorite play, Midsummer Night’s Dream!

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High Praise for Form and Foreskin

March 24 2023

Many thanks to Michael Calabrese for his review of Form and Foreskin in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. Calabrese said that the book is “a delightful, intense, and pleasurable read” that “belongs in the classroom and on reading lists for scholars.”

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All Press Is Good Press?

15 December 2022

Albrecht Classen’s review of Form and Foreskin for Sehepunkte is intellectually dishonest in its misrepresentation of my work. But if conservative scholars are going to such lengths to malign me, then I take that as a sign that I’m on the right track!

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Form & Foreskin Praised in Speculum

1 October 2022

It’s really an honor to read Stacy S. Klein’s review of Form & Foreskin for the most prestigious medievalist journal! Klein calls the book an “impressive monograph” written in a “distinctive style” filled with “verve and energy.”

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Raving Review for Form & Foreskin

27 July 2022

In Arthuriana, William Robert praised my book Form & Foreskin for “turn[ing] circumcision into an innovative way of interpreting narratives and refiguring narratology.”

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American Men’s Studies Association – Interdisciplinary Conference

13 June 2022

Invited to speak with Jordan Osserman (author of the brilliant Circumcision on the Couch)

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UCLA – English Department – Launch for Form & Foreskin

4 June 2022

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Bureau of General Services—Queer Division

5 May 2022

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Johns Hopkins University – Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

6 October 2021

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Added to the Professor Watch-List

15 August 2017

One of my proudest moments has been the right-wing push-back against my call for de-standardizing English grammar.