Dr. Joan Lubin

Biography

Joan Lubin's research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary American literature, media, culture, queer and trans theory, history of science, sociology of literature, and book history. She is currently completing a book project titled 'Pulp Sexology,' which explores the imprint of quantitative sexology on postwar literature and culture, and is beginning a pedagogical history of science fiction. Lubin is also editing a critical selection of letters from queer sci-fi greats such as Samuel R. Delany and Joanna Russ. Her research-based arts writing has been featured in exhibition catalogues such as 'Scientia Sexualis' at ICA Los Angeles and 'Sci-fi, Magick, Queer LA: Sexual Science Imagi-Nation' at ONE Archives USC Libraries. She has contributed to numerous journals and books, including work in 'Social Text' and 'American Literary History.' Previously, she served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science & Literature Society at Cornell University and was an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Durham University in the UK. Lubin holds a B.A. in Women's Studies from UCLA and received her Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

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