Aging #queer #gay; in #SF since ‘00. Love #books & #reading, all music, nature; grew up #rural living urban; preference for left policies/values, suspicious of performative politics & politics-as-identity; believer in #democracy; etc. #AmericanStudies professor at a state undergrad-focused uni. Teach broadly; research using Pragmatist social scientific & critical humanist methods sexuality, religion, theory. Current project on Thoreau’s “Week”