Joseph Osmundson
Joseph S. Osmundson (born 1983)[1] is an American biophysicist 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
[edit]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.[2]
Career
[edit]Osmundson's research on protein structure and function has been published in scientific journals such as Cell[3] and PNAS.[4] He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University.
Osmundson’s creative work on bodies, queerness, race, and geography has appeared, among others, in Medium,[5] The Village Voice,[6] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[7] Gawker,[8] Guernica,[9] the Kenyon Review,[10] the Lambda Literary Review,[11] and the Feminist Wire,[12] 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,[13] 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,"[14] with subject matters ranging "from Beyoncé to Borges, politics to peen sizes, Nietzsche to 90s R&B."[15]
Osmundson's third book, Virology, was published in June 2022 by Norton.[16] 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". The New York Times said, "Osmundson writes with the disarming voice of that teacher who makes science cool, even radical."[17]
In 2022, Time included Osmundson on their Time100 Next list of emerging leaders, citing Osmundson as, "instrumental in guiding New York City’s [mpox] vaccine distribution, helping implement a program that brings shots to places where people meet for sex and pushing for more inclusive eligibility criteria."[18]
Selected works
[edit]Books
[edit]- 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
- Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between (Norton, 2022), ISBN 978-0-393-88136-3
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "VIAF". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
- ^ Osmundson, Joseph S. (2012). rRNA Promoters as Targets for Transcription Factors: Structural and Functional Studies of PhERI and CarD (PhD thesis). Rockefeller University.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11012619S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1308270110. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3732983. PMID 23858468.
- ^ Osmundson, Joseph (23 May 2018). "Learning to Be Looked At – Member Feature Stories". Medium. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Joseph Osmundson". www.villagevoice.com. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Capsid: A Love Song". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ Osmundson, Joseph. "Things Unsaid". Gawker. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Some Other I Before Me". Guernica. 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "An Essay by Joseph Osmundson | Kenyon Review Online". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ Osmundson, Joseph (2015-12-03). "Reflections on D. Gilson's 'I Will Say This Exactly One Time'". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Joe Osmundson, Author at The Feminist Wire". The Feminist Wire. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ Team, Edit (2017-03-14). "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Food 4 Thot Is a Hilarious, Profane, Literary, Super Gay Podcast I Can't Stop Listening To". The Stranger. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "Some Thots". Food 4 Thot. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
- ^ "I have some news". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
- ^ Okrent, John (2022-06-08). "Reckoning With a Pandemic, as a Doctor and a Human". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
- ^ "2022 TIME100 Next: Joseph Osmundson". Time. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
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