Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

Dana Seitler

A headshot of Dana Seitler smiling slightly at the camera. She is a white woman with long dark brown curly hair and she wears black thick-rimmed glasses and matte burgundy lipstick. In the background are several shelves of books.

Dana Seitler is Professor of English and Director of the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in American Modernity (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and Reading Sideways: The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction (Fordham University Press, 2019), which was a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies. She has published in several academic journals including American Quarterly, GLQ, Criticism, Cultural Critique, American Literature, Genre, and A/SAP. Her current project, Narcopoetics: Withdrawal, Biopolitics, Ecstasy focuses on the politics and aesthetics of the opioid crisis at the intersections of race and sexuality in the U.S.

Email: d.seitler@utoronto.ca