Please join the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for the 24th Annual Stonewall Lecture with Jordy Rosenberg. Rosenberg’s visit is co-sponsored by the Literary Arts Bridge, the A&S Dean of Faculty office, the Department of English and Creative Writing, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and OPAL.

Jordy Rosenberg is the award-winnning author of the novels Confessions of the Fox (2018) and Night Night Fawn (2026) both from Random House/One World, as well as a scholarly monograph about 18th-century religious enthusiasts. Confessions of the Fox was a New York Times Editors Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, the UK Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award, and longlisted for The Dublin Literary Award. Confessions has been recognized by The New Yorker, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, LitHub, Electric Literature and the Feminist Press, among other places, as one of the Best Books of 2018, and is published by Atlantic Books in the UK, Allen & Unwin in Australia/New Zealand, and Paseka in Czechia. Jordy’s work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, The Lannan Foundation, The Banff Centre, The Ahmanson-Getty Foundation, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies.

Jordy is a professor in the Department of English and Associated MFA Faculty in the Program for Poets and Writers at The University of Massachusetts-Amherst.