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Alexander's experience of homophobia as a kid in the Deep South and his struggle to come to grips with self-hatred. Recounting a similar set of stories in overlapping fashion, the retelling plays out different perspectives on his personal history and
Alexander's attempts to come to terms over time with his past. The books include
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Julietta Singh offers a comment that could reflect much of Alexander's creative nonfiction project: "Expanding the cultural frame of what constitutes sexual abuse, he ruminates over the enduring psychic and bodily effects of homophobia. In so doing, this gorgeous book seeks to redress some of
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won the 2015 Lavender
Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship. Alexander is a three-time recipient of the Ellen Nold Award for Best Article in the field of Computers and Composition Studies. In 2011, he was given the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field of
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was the recipient of a 2022 "Ippy" Gold Medal, awarded by the
Independent Publisher Book Awards. In 2023, he was given the CCCC's Co-Exemplar Award for "representing the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching, and service to the entire profession." He also won the CCCC's 2023 Lavender Rhetorics
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was published by
Fordham University Press in 2021 and details the author's experience of a minor stroke and how he understands the stroke's relationship to the long-term experience of homophobia. Another set of books, loosely called "The Creep Trilogy," uses formal experimentation to document
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Alexander's now deceased gay uncle, in which Alexander and LaFarge attempted to imagine and depict his possible mid-20th century life in New Orleans' French Quarter.
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the ways we have used each other in the service of making marginalized life more livable, and ultimately redirects our energy toward the transformation of a world that continues to punish our differences."
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Alexander has worked primarily as an academic, scholar, higher educator, and administrator, with a current appointment at UC, Irvine. He also works across media. He is a frequent contributor to the
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Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges
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Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing
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Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web
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