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. (2025). “SCROLLS OF SILVER SNOWY SENTENCES”: Fragments From An Intellectual Autobiography. In The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies (pp. 95-105). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010180-10
Danil, L. R., & Dean, T. (2024). Viral sensibilities: A conversation with Tim Dean. Sexualities. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607241298798
Dean, T. (2024). An unlimited intimacy of the air: Pandemic fantasy, COVID-19 and the biopolitics of respiration. In Viral Times: Reflections on the COVID-19 and HIV Pandemics (pp. 66-87). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003322788-7
Dean, T. (2024). The Dead Never Die: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Queer Temporalities, and the Literature of AIDS. In B. Kahan (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (pp. 142-157). Cambridge University Press.
Dean, T. (2023). Afterword: The Unkillable Antisocial Thesis in Queer Theory. Postmodern Culture, 33(2-3). https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2023.a931364