Key facts
- Born
- ( 1974-10-15 ) October 15, 1974 (age 51) , Omaha, Nebraska , U.S.
- Occupation
- Professor, writer
- Education
- Yale University Norwich University ( BA ) University of Nebraska–Lincoln ( MA ) Michigan Technological University ( PhD )
- Genres
- Novel, short story, criticism
- Spouse
- Debbie Millman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2020 )
- Relatives
- Claudine Gay (cousin)
- Fields
- Communication studies
- Thesis
- Subverting the subject position: toward a new discourse about students as writers and engineering students as technical communicators (2010)
- Doctoral advisor
- Ann Brady
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Gay
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Omaha
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Educated at
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- Employer
- Purdue University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- literary criticism
- Official website
- www.roxanegay.com
- Image
- Roxane gay 9134940.JPG
- Political ideology
- fat acceptance movement
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- date of birth
- 1974-10-15
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- Roxane Gay
- social media followers
- 890482
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
- relative
- Claudine Gay
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Encyclopedic overview
Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of The New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (2014), as well as the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the short story collection Difficult Women (2017), and the memoir Hunger (2017).
Gay is the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She was an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University for four years before joining Purdue University as an associate professor of English, where she was tenured. In 2018, she left Purdue to become a visiting professor at Yale University. She joined Rutgers in 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roxane Gay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.