Dr. Steven Ruszczycky

Associate Professor

Interim Associate Chair
(Fall 2024-Winter 2025)

E-mail: sruszczy@calpoly.edu

 

 

 

 

Education

PhD, University at Buffalo, SUNY (2014)
MA (Hons) University of Auckland, New Zealand (2007)
BA University of California, Santa Barbara (2003)

Field of Study

U.S. Literature after World War II

Research and Teaching Interests

Book History and the Sociology of Literature
LGBT Literature and Queer Theory
Pornography and Genre Fiction

Selected Publications

Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction, University of Chicago Press, 2021
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo115839233.html

Co-editor, Porn Archives, Duke University Press, 2014.

"AIDS Literatures" in The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

"The Law of Pornography: John Rechy and Samuel Steward," Genre 47:2 (2014).

---. Reprinted in Passionate Professions: Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic. Ohio State University Press, 2017.

Selected Conference Presentations

"Hooked: Dennis Cooper and the Porn Addicts." Queer Places, Practices, and Lives Conference III, Ohio State University, May 12-13, 2017.

"After Obscenity: American Literature, Gay Pornography, and the Ethics of Reading." Presidential Theme Panel. Modern Language Association Convention, Austin, TX. Jan. 7-10, 2016.

Professional Memberships & Affiliations

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Modern Language Association
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

Courses at Cal Poly:

ENGL 382: LGBT Literature and Media
ENGL 449: Significant American Writers, Califia, Delany, Pornography