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Roxane Gay | |
|---|---|
 Gay in 2014 | |
| Born | October 15, 1974 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor, writer |
| Education | |
| Genres | Novel, short story, criticism |
| Spouse | |
| Relatives | Claudine Gay (cousin) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Communication studies |
| Thesis | Subverting the subject position: toward a new discourse about students as writers and engineering students as technical communicators (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ann Brady |
| Website | |
| roxanegay | |
Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974)[1][2] is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017).
Gay is the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.[3] She was an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University for four years before joining Purdue University as an associate professor of English, where she was tenured.[4] In 2018, she left Purdue to become a visiting professor at Yale University.[5] She joined Rutgers in 2022.[4]
Gay is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times,[6] founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, and the editor for Gay Mag, which was founded in partnership with Medium.[7][8][9]
- ^ Gay, Roxane. "Once, I Was Pretty". Freerange Nonfiction. Archived from the original on November 18, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
...a record of my birth in the Omaha World Herald, printed on October 28, 1974, thirteen days after my birthday. ... My name is spelled correctly on my birth certificate, with one 'n'...
- ^ Gay, Roxane (2017). Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body (Kindle ebook; 1st ed.). New York City: HarperCollins. p. 282.
- ^ Gordon, Laura. "2022-2025: Dr. Roxane Gay". Rutgers University :: Department of Women's and Gender Studies. Retrieved August 26, 2024.
- ^ a b "Roxane Gay Appointed Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies". www.rutgers.edu. Retrieved August 26, 2024.
- ^ Bangert, Dave (November 17, 2018). "Why Roxane Gay, best-selling 'Bad Feminist,' is leaving Purdue". Lafayette Journal & Courier. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ Gay, Roxane (August 21, 2016). "Nate Parker and the Limits of Empathy". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
- ^ Higgins, Jim (May 23, 2014). "Talking with 'An Untamed State' author Roxane Gay". The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
- ^ "About". PANK. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ "Gay Mag". gay.medium.com. May 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2020.