Matt Brim

Professor

Books

• Queering Sharing: Toward the Redistribution of Resources around the University (in-progress edited collection; under contract with Routledge)
• The Queer Precariat In and Out of Higher Education (in-progress edited collection; under contract with Zed Publishing)
• Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. (Read the Introduction here)
  • Winner, Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award, presented by the Working Class Studies Association
  • Finalist, O.L. Davis Jr. Outstanding Book in Education Award, presented by the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum
  • Reviews: Women's Review of Books (May/June 2020), E3W (spring 2020), Ethnic and Racial Studies (July 2020), Radical Teacher (summer 2020), PopMatters (Sept. 2020), Choice (Oct. 2020), Teachers College Record (Nov. 2020), Journal of Working-Class Studies (Dec. 2020), GLQ (27.2, April 2021), PublicBooks (Feb 2021)
• Imagining Queer Methods. Coedited with Amin Ghaziani. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
• James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2014.

Special Issues of Journals

• Queer Methods. Coedited with Amin Ghaziani. Special issue of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 3-4, 2016.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “Poor Queer Studies: Class, Race, and the Field.” Journal of Homosexuality, special issue: “25 Years On: The State and Continuing Development of LGBTQ Studies Programs.” Nov. 7, 2018.
  • Awarded 2018 Crompton-Noll prize for best essay in lesbian, gay, queer studies in the modern languages/literatures, given by the Gay and Lesbian Quarterly (GL/Q) Caucus of the Modern Language Association
• Introduction. With Amin Ghaziani. Queer Methods, special issue of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 3-4, 2016, pp. 14-27.
• “Queer Pedagogical Desire: A Study Guide.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 41.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2013): 173-189.
• “James Baldwin’s Queer Utility.” ANQ: A Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 24.4 (2011): 209-216.
•  “Papas’ Baby: Impossible Paternity in Going to Meet the Man.” Journal of Modern Literature 30:1 (2006): 173-198.

Book Chapters

• With Amin Ghaziani. "Queer Methods: Four Provocations for an Emerging Field." In Imagining Queer Methods. Eds. Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim. New York University Press, 2019. 3-27.
• “Counternarratives: A Black Queer Reader.” In Imagining Queer Methods. Eds. Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim. New York University Press, 2019. 143-162.
• “After Queer Baldwin.” In After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21^st Century. Eds. Tyler Bradway and E.L. McCallum. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 87-101.
• “Teaching the Touching Text; or, How to Lay ‘Hands’ on Your Students.” The Hand of the Interpreter: Essays on Meaning after Theory. Eds. G.F. Mitrano and Eric Jarosinski. Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationships between the Arts. Ser. 3. New York: Peter Lang Pub., 2009. 135-150.

Invited and Featured Articles

• “Please Send Queer Food.” Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 66, issue 1, 2021, 223-227. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2021/1/36
• "The House the Queer Theory Built." The Baffler, No. 53, September 2020. 90-98. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-house-that-queer-theory-built-brim.

Reference Work and Study Guides

• "Methods." With Amin Ghaziani. In Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Aizura, et. al., NYU Press, forthcoming 2021.
• “Study Guide for United in Anger: A History of ACT UP.” Online educational resource (55 manuscript pages). United in Anger [documentary film]. Dir. Jim Hubbard. March 2013 www.unitedinanger.com/studyguide/?page_id=808.

Electronic/Multimedia

• “Teaching Black Queer Studies as General Education for the Public Good.” Transformative Learning in the Humanities Blog, 5 March, 2021, https://transform.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2021/03/05/reflection-on-teaching-black-queer-studies-as-general-education-for-the-public-good/
• "Queer, Cops, and CUNY." "Stonewall at 50: A Roundtable."The Gotham Center for New York City History Blog, 27 June, 2019, https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/stonewall-at-50-a-roundtable.
• “The FFPP Writing Group that Didn’t Stop.” Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, 24 March 2017. https://ffpp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/03/24/the-ffpp-writing-group-that-didnt-stop/ (Blog post).

Other Publications

•  "What Are Queer Parents and Feminist Children to Do?" In Feminism in Our Times: Crisis, Connections & Cares. Ed.Yvette Taylor, Ill. Samia Singh. University of Strathclyde, 2020. 18-19.
• “Not a Novel Crisis at CUNY.” Gotham Gazette, 6 May 2020. Op-ed. https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/9351-not-a-novel-crisis-cuny-coronavirus-state-budget
•  Review of LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, edited by Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, and Christine Keating. Coauthored with Melissa Maldanado-Salcedo. Teachers College Record, 2018.
• “Editors’ Note.” With Cynthia Chris. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 44.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2016): 9-13.
• “Editors’ Note.” With Cynthia Chris. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 43.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2015): 9-13.
• “Editors’ Note.” With Cynthia Chris. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 43.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2015): 9-13.
• “Larry Mitchell: Novelist of New York Gay Life.” Obituary. The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide 20.3 (2013): 11.
• “Edmund White and Rakesh Satyal Headline First Kessler Conversation of the Year.” CLAGS (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies) Newsletter (Spring 2012): 6.
• “The Problems with ‘Post-Gay.’” With Amin Ghaziani. Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (Fall 2011): 2-3, 8-9.
• Mitchell, Larry. Interview. “Larry Mitchell, Novelist of the Dispossessed.” The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide 16.4 (2009): 34-5.
• “The LGBTQ Short Story.”  LGBTQ America Today. Ed. John Hawley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. 1131-1137.
• STACS: Strategies to Acquire Composition Skills. With Ted Leahey, Michele Satchwell, and Doug Estell. Bloomington, IN: PDK, 2004.