Research Interests
Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, Poetry & Poetics, Modern & Contemporary Literature
Education
- BA, University of East Anglia, 1988
- MA, Johns Hopkins University, 1992
- PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1994
Additional Campus Affiliations
James M. Benson Professor, English
Professor, English
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Dean, T. J. (2009). Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking. University of Chicago Press.
Dean, T. J. (2000). Beyond Sexuality. University of Chicago Press.
Dean, T. J. (1991). Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground. (New directions in American studies). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376649
Recent Publications
Dean, T. (2023). Freud's ménage à quatre. In P. Gherovici, & M. Steinkoler (Eds.), Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans (pp. 43-55). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284888-3
Davis, O., & Dean, T. (2022). Hatred of Sex. (Provocations). University of Nebraska Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv29z1hpz
Dean, T. (2022). ‘I Do What I Know How To Do’: Performing the Penis in Key West. In M. Jones, & E. Callahan (Eds.), Performing the Penis: Phalluses in 21st Century Cultures (pp. 136-160). (Gender, Bodies and Transformation). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003108481-9
Dean, T. (2021). Poetics of Presence, Vocation, and Attention: The Example of Whitman. American Literary History, 33(1), 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaa045
Dean, T. (2020). Genre Blindness in the New Descriptivism. Modern Language Quarterly, 81(4), 527-552. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-8637950