Dr Jack Parlett

Jack Parlett is a writer and literary scholar specialising in queer studies and American literature. He recently completed a PhD at Cambridge University on gay cruising in New York poetry and he is now a Junior Research Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, where he also teaches literary theory and modern American literature. His debut poetry pamphlet, same blue, different you, will publish with Broken Sleep Books in August 2020. Some poems have already appeared in Hotel, Blackbox Manifold (co-written with Anne Stillman as ‘Otto & Gisel’), Visual Verse and the BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival zine. His reviews and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Literary Hub, Poetry London, SPAM zine, Burlington Magazine, the Cambridge Humanities Review and Dazed and Confused. He also writes critical profiles for the British Council Writers Directory and works freelance in events production for 5x15, a London-based events company, and Sayers & Doers, in New York. He is currently working on two projects: an academic monograph based on his doctoral research, and a trade book about the literary history of Fire Island. More information and links to his work can be found at jackparlett.com