jonathan alexander
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Research Interests: His work has primarily focused on written and digital production in the extra-curriculum, such as self- and collectively-sponsored multimodal forms of composition, including "fan texts." More recently, he has turned his attention to many varied forms of life narrative as a rich mode of rhetorical and political engagement.
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Greetings. I'm Jonathan Alexander, a writer, scholar, and educator. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, I now live with my husband and our cat in Southern California.
As a writer, I work as a reviewer and cultural critic, focusing on young adult fiction, science fiction media, queer writers and culture, the politics of literacy, and memoir. I am also the YA section editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, to which I'm a frequent contributor.
As a scholar, I study how people write, learn about writing, and develop a sense of what writing is and does as they compose in a variety of curricular and extra-curricular contexts. I'm particularly interested in writing that people do for personal and political projects, especially in online or multi-mediated spaces.
Most recently, I have turned attention to memoir and life writing as ways of connecting personal and political ways of thinking. Check out my critical memoir, Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology for my experimental writing in this mode. More information about my creative nonfiction can be found at The Creep Trilogy website.
Finally, I work as Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
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