Abigail Joseph completed her PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2012. She teaches in the Expository Writing Program at NYU and is working on a book about the relationships between homosexuality and material culture in 19th-century England.
Abigail Joseph
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After a Queer Fashion
The exhibit currently on view at the Museum at FIT, “A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk,” ends on a note of progressive triumphalism: the final installation is a triptych of gay wedding attire from the past several years. We see, to the right, a pair of entirely conventional white wedding […]
The Epistolary Terrorist
Alex Gilvarry’s debut novel, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, opens with an announcement that what follows is not a novel at all: Editor’s Note: With the exception of footnote annotations, the author’s acknowledgments, the editor’s afterward, and a supplemental article included with permission, all material herein has been reprinted verbatim from the confession […]
