Tim Dean

Tim Dean is a British philosopher, author, notable in the field of contemporary queer theory, and author of several works on the subject: Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious (1991), Beyond Sexuality (2000), and Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (2009), all published by the University of Chicago Press, and a co-editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (2001).

Dean was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA in American Studies), became a British civil servant, earned his MA at Brandeis University (undergraduate dissertation on Gary Snyder), and PhD at Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation on Hart Crane). He was a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (1997-1998). He taught for several years at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the University of Washington (Seattle). In 2002, he joined the The State University of New York at Buffalo where he is affiliated with The Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, and the Department of Comparative Literature.