Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017).
Roxane Gay | |
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Gay in 2014 | |
| Born | October 15, 1974 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor, writer |
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| Genres | Novel, short story, criticism |
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| Relatives | Claudine Gay (cousin) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Communication studies |
| Thesis | Subverting the subject position: toward a new discourse about students as writers and engineering students as technical communicators (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ann Brady |
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Gay was an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University for four years before joining Purdue University as an associate professor of English. In 2018, she left Purdue to become a visiting professor at Yale University.
Gay is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, founder of Tiny Hardcore Press, essays editor for The Rumpus, and the editor for Gay Mag, which was founded in partnership with Medium.