Jessica Lawson

Jessica Lawson is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Iowa. Her scholarship in twentieth-century experimental literatures covers a range of topics, including subjectivity, feminist/queer theory, and critical examinations of the body.  She contributed a chapter on the sexuality of reading/writing practices to the Pynchon study Against the Grain (2010). Her other writings engage texts by Kathy Acker, Mina Loy, Sarah Kane, William Gibson, Harryette Mullen, and others.