Steven Beardsley

Steven Beardsley (he/him/his) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies at Bucknell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature with a specialization in Critical Gender Studies from the University of California San Diego. He is a member of the Southern California Southeast Asian Studies (SoCal SEAS) work group founded at the University of California San Diego.

He is currently working on his book project Queer Intimacies: (Re)imagining Life-worlds in Literatures about Filipino/x American and Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines across the U.S. and the Philippines, which explores the propensity of Filipino/xs American writers to (re)imagine themselves as Indigenous in the Philippines. By also attending to the limits of decolonization and queer theories, he looks at new possibilities for queerer life-worlds for Indigenous and Filipino/x peoples.

He is also seeking publication for forthcoming articles and for his urban young adult romantasy novel Sky Dreams that centers a Filipino American protagonist.

Linkedin and SoCAL SEA websites

Specializations: Asian American Literatures, Filipinx Studies, Queer and Trans People of Color Critique, and Two Spirit Queer Literatures

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of California San Diego

M.A., University of California San Diego

B.A., Hamline University