Y Howard’s book Erratic Erotics: Analog - Sexualities - Mortalities will investigate analog-informed artworks that become sites of erotic possibility by engaging bodily states of negation and the sensoria of death.
Y Howard is professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. They specialize in sexuality studies, queer theory, and cultural histories of feminism in the context of audiovisual arts. They are the author of Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground (University of Illinois Press, 2018) and the editor of Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan (The Ohio State University Press, 2020).