The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Congratulations to Alex Brostoff, Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College and a visiting scholar for the 2025 - 2026 academic year, on publishing their book Autotheories!
Alex Brostoff is assistant professor of English at Kenyon College, where they are associated faculty in Gender & Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and the Latinx Studies Concentration. An interdisciplinary scholar and translator, their research interests converge at the crossroads of genre-hybrid literatures, literary and critical theory, and trans and queer cultural production in twentieth and twenty-first century hemispheric American studies.
Autotheories tells the story of a field in formation. Building on traditions that have long fused life writing, philosophical encounter, embodied theorizing, and cultural critique, autotheory constructs new practices of critical theory. Transgressing generic boundaries and bridging stylistic registers, it crafts language that is intimate, analytic, playful, and insurgent. Editors Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan underscore autotheory's multiple genealogies and genre-bending forms while situating it within the contemporary political field. In this collection, autotheory emerges as a strut (of style), a straddle (of disciplines), a proliferation (of selves), an axis (of identifications), an index (of attachments), and an archive (of loves).
Please read their full bio here and learn more about Autotheories here.