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Brenden O’Donnell
Brenden O’Donnell is a lecturer in Literary Arts and Studies at Rhode Island School of Design. His teaching and research focus on twentieth-century American literature, LGBTIA studies, feminist theory, addiction studies and the medical humanities. He is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Brandeis University. His dissertation, ‘Queer temperance: Recovery as critical mourning’, argues that Stonewall-period lesbian and gay literature cultivates addiction recovery resources for sexual minorities alienated by medical and religious discourses. One of his dissertation chapters has been adapted into the article ‘Gore Vidal’s Moral Program: Homophile spirituality in The City and the Pillar’, published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language.