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Eli Dunn

Postdoctoral Scholar - Teaching Fellow
Pronouns He / Him / His Email eli.dunn@usc.edu

Biography

Eliot “Eli” Dunn is a scholar working at the intersection of trans studies, contemporary literature, and queer digital cultures. They completed their doctorate in English at USC in 2023, where their dissertation examined time in digital transgender narratives from video games to memes to short fiction. In it they argue for a looping, multiversal transgender temporality which issues from a shared experience of gender misrecognition and its attendant feeling of doubling. The project finds that the trans temporal loop serves as a bridge between trans creators and...

Education

  • BA Univ Calif Irvine
  • MA Univ Virginia

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Eli works on contemporary literature and narrative experiments from poetry to video games to streaming television. They are interested in how narrative form and structure impact viewers and readers, with a particular eye for narrative temporality and interactivity. They also dabble in fan studies and popular culture. Eli writes about everything from experimental queer autotheory to memes and Twitter.

    Research Specialties

    queer theory, trans studies, media studies, film and television studies, contemporary fiction

  • Journal Article

    • Dunn, E. (2016). Steven Universe, Fusion Magic, and the Queer Cartoon Carnivalesque. GenderForum. Vol. 56 Gender Forum Website
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