Dr Diarmuid Hester is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at the University of Cambridge where he is writing a counterhistory of New York art and literature from the vantage point of waste, broadly conceived. His work is published or forthcoming in the likes of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, American Literature, the Journal of American Studies, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and gorse. His first book, WRONG: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper, critically examines the life and work of renowned Queercore writer, artist, and filmmaker Dennis Cooper and is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. Get in touch: @dehester
TRASH! Waste and Queer Cultures 