Tim Dean is a British academic, author, notable in the field of contemporary queer theory, and author of several works on the subject: ''Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious'' (1991), ''Beyond Sexuality'' (2000), and ''Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking'' (2009), all published by the University of Chicago Press, and a co-editor of ''Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis'' (2001). Dean published ''Hatred of Sex'' together with Oliver Davis in 2022. Dean first became a British civil servant before attending the University of East Anglia, during which time he participated in a Junior Year Abroad program at Brandeis University, and wrote his undergraduate dissertation on

Gary Snyder Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of ...

before graduating BA with First Class Honours in American Studies. He subsequently earned his PhD at Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation on

Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Provoked and inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, '' The Brid ...

). He was a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (1997-1998). He teaches at the University of Illinois ( Urbana-Champaign).

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