Cynthia Barounis, PhD

Cynthia Barounis is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. Her teaching and research interests include disability studies, queer theory, feminist theory, and masculinities. Her book, Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood (Temple University Press, 2019), was awarded the National Women's Studies Association's 2020 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize. Her work has appeared in GLQ, Women's Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Visual Culture, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and others. She is currently at work on a new book that uses crip theory and biopolitics to revisit the camp aesthetic. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago.