Stephen Dillon
Department Head
Department of American Cultural Studies
Stephen Dillon is Chair of the Department of American Cultural Studies. He Received his PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in English and History from the University of Iowa.
He is the author of Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State (Duke University Press, 2018). His research on race, gender and sexuality, and incarceration
has appeared in American Quarterly, GLQ, The Journal of African-American History,
Radical History Review, Feminist Formations, Theory and Event, Signs, Feminist Review,
Cultural Studies, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Qui Parle:
Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, Places: Public Scholarship on Architecture,
Landscape, and Urbanism and the edited collections Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future
of Abolition, and Paths to the Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality.
He is currently completing two new book projects. Affects for Abolition: Feeling the Ends of the Prison examines how imprisoned and free world activists use feelings in their organizing and art. And Punk Justice: The Noise of Freedom explores how punk music and culture imagines gender, racial, environmental, and economic justice.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.