天美传媒

Gender and sexuality, 20th-century cultural history, literature, and art, U.S. radical culture

PhD, American Studies, Boston University

• (University of California Press, 2021)
• (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
• (Routledge, 2020), 118-132.
• , ed. Christopher Vials (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 193-211.
• , co-edited by Paula Rabinowitz, Ruth Barraclough, and Heather Bowen-Struyk (Palgrave: 2015): 141-161.
• 53:2 Spring 2015): 141-158.
• 18:1 (2012): 179-195.
• , Special issue on Asian American Performance Art, 36:4 (2011): 87-114.
• “Inventing the Egghead: The Cultural Politics of Brainpower in the Cold War United States,” Journal of American Studies 45:2 (2011): 245-265.
• 53:1 (Spring/Summer 2015).
• "TWO Witch-hunts: On (Not) Seeing Red in LGBT History," American Communist History (December 2015), 241-247.
• 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.

Selected Media Pieces

 in Washington Post (June 10, 2021)

 in Abusable Past (June 4, 2020)

 in Abusable Past (Sept 13, 2019)

 in Abusable Past (July 2, 2019)

 in Slate (June 27, 2018)

 in Slate (September 25, 2017)

Research Interests:

Aaron Lecklider's research focuses on the history of sexuality, class, race, and gender in twentieth-century American literature and culture. His most recent book, , explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals, workers, and the poor. His first book, , studied how working-class Americans, particularly women, African Americans, and immigrants, imagined themselves as organic intellectuals. He is currently completing a book about socialism in American cultural history as part of the series at University of California Press. Lecklider also brings to the department an interest in contemporary art: in February 2013 he curated an exhibit, Lifelines: Recent Work by Avram Finkelstein, that featured contemporary paintings and sculpture by an important founding member of Gran Fury and ACT UP.

Work in Progress:

"Socialism in the US: A Cultural History"

Courses taught:

AMST 100 American Identities
AMST 101 Popular Culture in America 
AMST 203 The Thirties 
AMST 206 The Sixties
AMST 209 The 1990s
AMST 257 Queer Literature and History in the 20th-Century US
AMST 325L Sexual Identities in American Culture

AMST 603 Historical Sequence II
AMST 604 Gender and Sexuality in US History and Culture