Matt Brim

Matt Brim is Professor of Queer Studies in the English department at College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, USA. He writes about queer class and race relations in the academy, as well as queer literature and culture. His book Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020) reorients the field of queer studies away from exclusionary institutions of higher education and toward working-class colleges, students, theories, and pedagogies. Brim is the author of...See more

Matt Brim is Professor of Queer Studies in the English department at College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, USA. He writes about queer class and race relations in the academy, as well as queer literature and culture. His book Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (2020) reorients the field of queer studies away from exclusionary institutions of higher education and toward working-class colleges, students, theories, and pedagogies. Brim is the author of James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (2014), as well as an open access online guide for teaching the HIV/AIDS activist documentary film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012). See less