Lucas F. W. Wilson
Editor, ‘Shame-Sex Attraction’
Lucas Wilson (he/him) is a queer historian and public humanist. He is on a mission to unearth untold histories of hatred against LGBTQ+ communities and uplift the voices of those who have been silenced because of homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of systemic violence.
Lucas is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga. He is the author of ‘At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Literature’, which eceived the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award.
He is also the editor of ‘Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy’ and co-editor of ‘Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature’. His work has appeared in Modern Language Studies, Canadian Jewish Studies, Flannery O’Connor Review, Journal of Jewish Identities, and Studies in American Jewish Literature.
Lucas is based in Toronto in Canada.
Key Info
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Free Video: Conversion Practises
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Higher Education
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (in progress) | University of Toronto Mississauga
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Comparative Studies | Florida Atlantic University
Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S), Jewish/Judaic Studies | Vanderbilt University
Master of Arts (M.A.), English | McMaster University
Bachelor's Degree, English | Liberty University
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Conversion therapy
Evangelicalism
White Christian fundamentalism
White Christian nationalism
Homophobia
Transphobia
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Author
At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Literature
Editor
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