Ben Bascom

Ben Bascom is Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University, Indiana. He is a scholar and teacher of early and nineteenth-century American literatures. He draws upon a queer studies methodology that follows the relationship between power and desire, gender and sexuality, in American literary cultures. In 2019, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA.

Ben Bascom is Assistant Professor of English at Ball State University, Indiana. He is a scholar and teacher of early and nineteenth-century American literatures. He draws upon a queer studies methodology that follows the relationship between power and desire, gender and sexuality, in American literary cultures. In 2019, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. See less