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Department: Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies

Email: jgiardini@allegheny.edu

Office Phone: (814) 332-4333

Office Building: Oddfellows Building

Office Room: 218

Box #: 95

Professional Title/s

Visiting Assistant Professor

Biographical Information

Jo Giardini is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Allegheny college. Their research focuses on twentieth-century poetics, communalist and separatist movements, literary genre, and the intersection of political economy, racial capitalism, and the history of sexuality. They are presently working on two book projects: Separations: Communalist and Alter-Urban Imaginaries in 1970s American Literature; and Literary Operations: Gender Identity from Clinic to Culture.