Jonathan Alexander

Jonathan Alexander is a writer in Southern California and Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.  As a writer, Jonathan works as a reviewer and cultural critic, focusing on young adult fiction, science fiction media, queer writers and culture, the politics of literacy, and memoir.  He is also the YA section editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, to which he is a frequent contributor. As a scholar, he studies how people write, learn about writing, and develop a sense of what writing is and does as they compose in a variety of curricular and extra-curricular contexts.  He's particularly interested in writing that people do for personal and political projects, especially in online or multi-mediated spaces. Most recently, Jonathan has turned attention to memoir and life writing as ways of connecting personal and political ways of thinking.  Check out his critical memoir, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 2018.  New work includes Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot (Fordham UP, 2021), Bullied: The Story of an Abuse (Punctum, 2021), and Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir (Acre Books, 2022).  Learn more at http://www.the-blank-page.com. You can also hear his podcast, Creep, at http://www.thecreeptrilogy.com/.