Department of English Language and Literature

Joseph Gamble (PhD Michigan, they/them or he/him) teaches courses on early modern literature (including Shakespeare), modern drama, and contemporary LGBTQ literature and culture. In addition to articles on early modern sexuality and trans studies, they are the author of Sex Lives of the Early Moderns (forthcoming University of Pennsylvania Press) and co-editor, with Gillian Knoll (Western Kentucky University), of The Kinky Renaissance (forthcoming ACMRS Press). They are currently at work on a second book project, Trans Philologies, which examines how gender nonconforming people across the past five-hundred years have rendered their lives livable in part by restructuring the English language.  You can read more about their work at their website.