Joan Lubin

Joan Lubin is Assistant Professor of English. Lubin is currently finishing Pulp Sexology, a book project about the imprint of quantitative sexology on postwar literature and culture, and co-editing a critical selection of letters between queer sci-fi greats Samuel R. Delany and Joanna Russ. Lubin’s research-based arts writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues including Scientia Sexualis (ICA Los Angeles, 2024) and Sci-fi, Magick, Queer LA: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation (ONE Archives at USC Libraries, 2024). She is co-editor of “Sexology and Its Afterlives,” a 2021 special issue of Social Text, and her scholarship has been published in journals and books including Post45, New Literary History, American Literary History, Women & Performance, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU 2021), The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (Cambridge UP, 2024), and elsewhere.