Joseph Osmundson

Joseph Osmundson is a scientist and writer. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University. Osmundson is the author of various books exploring bodies, queerness, race, and geography.

Education

Osmundson has a Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biophysics from the Rockefeller University. His 2012 dissertation was titled rRNA Promoters as Targets for Transcription Factors: Structural and Functional Studies of PhERI and CarD. His doctoral advisor was Seth Darst.[1]

Career

Osmundson's research on protein structure and function has been published in scientific journals such as Cell[2] and PNAS.[3] He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University.

Osmundson creative work on bodies, queerness, race, and geography has appeared, among others, in Medium,[4] the Village Voice,[5] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[6] Gawker,[7] Guernica,[8] the Kenyon Review,[9] the Lambda Literary Review,[10] and the Feminist Wire,[11] where he is an associate editor. His 2016 book Capsid: A Love Song won the POZ Award for best HIV writing (fiction/poetry) and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award,[12] and his second book, INSIDE/OUT, was published in January 2018. With fellow queer writers Dennis Norris II, Tommy Pico, and Fran Tirado, he co-hosts Food 4 Thot, a podcast "at the intersection of queerness and brownness,"[13] with subject matters ranging "from Beyoncé to Borges, politics to peen sizes, Nietzsche to 90s R&B."[14]

Osmundson's next book, On Virology, will be published in Spring 2022 by Norton.[15] The essay collection focusses on "the social and scientific impact of viruses through the lens of queer theory, race, capitalism, and the legacy of HIV/AIDS activism".

Selected works

Books
  • Capsid: A Love Song (Indolent Books, 2016), ISBN 978-1-945023-03-3
  • INSIDE/OUT (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018), ISBN 978-1-943977-44-4

See also

References
  1. Osmundson, Joseph (2012-01-01). "rRNA Promoters as Targets for Transcription Factors: Structural and Functional Studies of PhERI and CarD". Student Theses and Dissertations.
  2. Osmundson, Joseph; Montero-Diez, Cristina; Westblade, Lars F.; Hochschild, Ann; Darst, Seth A. (November 2012). "Promoter-Specific Transcription Inhibition in Staphylococcus aureus by a Phage Protein". Cell. 151 (5): 1005–1016. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.10.034. ISSN 0092-8674. PMC 3604623. PMID 23178120.
  3. Srivastava, Devendra B.; Leon, Katherine; Osmundson, Joseph; Garner, Ashley L.; Weiss, Leslie A.; Westblade, Lars F.; Glickman, Michael S.; Landick, Robert; Darst, Seth A. (2013-07-30). "Structure and function of CarD, an essential mycobacterial transcription factor". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (31): 12619–12624. doi:10.1073/pnas.1308270110. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3732983. PMID 23858468.
  4. Osmundson, Joseph. "Learning to Be Looked At – Member Feature Stories". Medium. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  5. "Joseph Osmundson". www.villagevoice.com. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  6. "Capsid: A Love Song". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  7. Osmundson, Joseph. "Things Unsaid". Gawker. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  8. "Some Other I Before Me". Guernica. 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  9. "An Essay by Joseph Osmundson | Kenyon Review Online". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  10. Osmundson, Joseph (2015-12-03). "Reflections on D. Gilson's 'I Will Say This Exactly One Time'". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  11. "Joe Osmundson, Author at The Feminist Wire". The Feminist Wire. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  12. Team, Edit (2017-03-14). "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  13. "Food 4 Thot Is a Hilarious, Profane, Literary, Super Gay Podcast I Can't Stop Listening To". The Stranger. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  14. "Some Thots". Food 4 Thot. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  15. "I have some news". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
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