Winner: 2026 CLAGS Fellowship from the Center for LGBTQ Studies 🌈

Praise for Transfer Queen

“Tough-minded bawdiness and neoclassical beauty“—Wayne Koestenbaum

Praise for The Gentrified City of God

“Honest, funny, and obscene”—William T. Cavanaugh

“Impossible to categorize”—Molly Worthen

“The book we deserve”—Jonathan Alexander

“Like reading St. John the Baptist—many readers will want to cut Strouse’s head off!”—Stephen Adubato

“Shines bright with radical gay love”—Alexandra Juhasz

Praise for Form and Foreskin

“delightfully odd, complicated. … simply delicious … I laughed myself into tears”—Theology & Sexuality

“operates complexly… an innovative way of interpreting narratives”—Arthuriana

“accessible, fun, & provocative”—Adrienne Williams Boyarin

“vivid & enjoyable… a pleasant read”—Anglia

“Notable for its verve and energy … fast-paced and idea-driven”—Speculum

“…would make Luce Irigaray laugh, or perhaps weep”—Augustinian Studies

“quirky… a wild ride of interpretation”—sehepunkte

Praise for Gender Trouble Couplets

“a new, original, & compelling experiment”—Anna M. Kłosowska

Testimony from Writing Students

“Allen is a great coach and his future clients are so lucky to have him!”—Nerve Macaspac, Assistant Professor Geography

“Allen is as insightful as he is inspired in his remarks”— Caio Yurgel, Assistant Professor of Humanities