Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D., Princeton University; M.A., Creative Writing, The Johns Hopkins University.
Research Interests: Poetry and poetics; modern and contemporary literature; music; film; visual art; queer studies; cultural studies; performance; the essay; autobiography.
Specialization: Autobiography, Biography, and Life-Writing|Cultural Studies|Film and Literature|Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist/Queer Theory|Literature after 1945|Modernism|Poetics and Aesthetic Theory|Twenty-first-Century and Contemporary Literature|Visual Culture
Books:
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My 1980s & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).
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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (University of California Press, 2012).
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Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background (Turtle Point Press, 2012).
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Humiliation (Picador, 2011).
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Hotel Theory (Soft Skull Press, 2007).
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Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films (Turtle Point Press, 2006).
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Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes (Soft Skull Press, 2004).
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Andy Warhol (Lipper/Viking, 2001).
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Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars, and Aesthetics (Ballantine Books, 2000).
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The Milk of Inquiry (Persea, 1999).
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Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting An Icon (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995).
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Rhapsodies of A Repeat Offender (Persea, 1994).
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The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire (Poseidon, 1993).
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Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems (Persea, 1990).
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Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration (Routledge, 1989).