I am a teacher, researcher, and writer living in a small college town on California’s central coast. This is a place for me to exercise my writing and thinking outside of my professional projects. You can find out more about my professional work here. I am the author of Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and one of the co-editors of Porn Archives (Duke University Press, 2014). I am also one of the directors for the SLO Queer Archive Project, a public humanities project focused on queer and trans history and culture of the California Central Coast. My current research, drawing much inspiration from the new institutional turn in contemporary literary studies, examines the emergence of “LGBT+ literature” as an genre category.
Steven A. Ruszczycky, PhD 