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Tim Dean is a British academic, author, notable in the field of contemporary queer theory, [1] [2] [3] and author of several works on the subject: Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious (1991), Beyond Sexuality (2000), [2] and Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (2009), [4] 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. [5]

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 before graduating BA with First Class Honours in American Studies. [6] He subsequently earned his PhD at Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation on Hart Crane). He was a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (1997-1998). [7] He teaches at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

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  2. 1 2 Downing, Lisa. "Beyond Sexuality: Review". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 34 (2): 255–263. doi:10.1007/s10508-005-1802-1. S2CID   189872704.
  3. Rickard, G Keilan (2009). "The land of big queers: A fairy's tale (To be read aloud then discarded just as quickly)". Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 14: 89–99. doi:10.1057/pcs.2008.15. S2CID   147088373 . Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  4. "On Bareback Subcultures and the Pornography of Risk". Slought Foundation . Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  5. Hatred of Sex. University of Nebraska Press . Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  6. "Tim Dean | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Academia.edu".
  7. "Fellows Update". Stanford Humanities Center. 26 February 2010. Archived from the original on 5 July 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2010.