Joseph Osmundson

Osmundson has a Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biophysics from the Rockefeller University. His 2012 dissertation was titled rRNA Promoters as Targets for Transcription Factors: Structural and Functional Studies of PhERI and CarD. His doctoral advisor was Seth Darst.[1]

Osmundson's research on protein structure and function has been published in scientific journals such as Cell[2] and PNAS.[3] He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University.

Osmundson creative work on bodies, queerness, race, and geography has appeared, among others, in Medium,[4] the Village Voice,[5] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[6] Gawker,[7] Guernica,[8] the Kenyon Review,[9] the Lambda Literary Review,[10] and the Feminist Wire,[11] where he is an associate editor. His 2016 book Capsid: A Love Song won the POZ Award for best HIV writing (fiction/poetry) and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award,[12] and his second book, INSIDE/OUT, was published in January 2018. With fellow queer writers Dennis Norris II, Tommy Pico, and Fran Tirado, he co-hosts Food 4 Thot, a podcast "at the intersection of queerness and brownness,"[13] with subject matters ranging "from Beyoncé to Borges, politics to peen sizes, Nietzsche to 90s R&B."[14]

Osmundson's next book, On Virology, will be published in Spring 2022 by Norton.[15] The essay collection focusses on "the social and scientific impact of viruses through the lens of queer theory, race, capitalism, and the legacy of HIV/AIDS activism".

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• LGBT culture in New York City

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