Faculty & Staff
Aaron Lecklider, PhD
- Assistant Professor of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617-287-6771
- Email: aaron.lecklider@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,05,00052
Areas of Expertise
Gender and Sexuality, 20th Century Cultural History
Degrees
PhD Boston University
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
- “Inventing the Egghead: The Cultural Politics of Brainpower in the Cold War United States,” Journal of American Studies 45:2 (2011): 245-265.
- Guest Editor, Queer Studies Special Issue, Journal of Popular Music Studies 18:2 (2006).
- “Between Decadence and Denial: Two Studies in Gay Male Politics and 1980s Pop Music,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 16:2 (2004): 111-146.
- “H.T. Tsiang’s Proletarian Burlesque: Performance and Perversion in The Hanging on Union Square,” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Special issue on Asian American Performance Art, 36:4 (2011): 87-114.
- “Coming to Terms: Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture,” Review essay in special issue on Queer Studies and the Crisis of Capitalism, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 18:1 (2012): 179-195.
Additional Information
Research Interests:
Aaron Lecklider's research centers on gender and sexuality; U.S. cultural history; 20th-century American literature; contemporary visual and performance art; and radical fiction, art and performance.
Work in Progress:
"Love’s Next Meeting: Sex and Radicalism in Twentieth-Century American Culture."
Courses taught:
AMST100 American Identities
AMST101 Popular Culture in America
AMST203 The Thirties
AMST206 The Sixties
AMST 325L: Sexual Identities in American Culture
AMST603 Historical Sequence II
AMST604 Gender and Sexuality in US History and Culture
Further information:
Consult Professor Lecklider's (CV).
