{{Short description|British academic and queer theorist}} {{distinguish|text = the Australian philosopher}} '''Timothy J. Dean''' is a British academic, author, notable in the field of contemporary [[queer theory]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Henry James and queer modernity|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-81394-5|pages=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SRWfbGDJVAcC&pg=PA14 |author= Eric L. Haralson|access-date=17 December 2010}}</ref><ref name=downing>{{cite journal|last=Downing|first=Lisa|title=Beyond Sexuality: Review|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=34|issue=2|pages=255–263|doi=10.1007/s10508-005-1802-1|s2cid=189872704}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last= Rickard|first=G Keilan|url=http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pcs/journal/v14/n1/full/pcs200815a.html|title=The land of big queers: A fairy's tale (To be read aloud then discarded just as quickly)|journal=Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society |year=2009|volume=14|pages=89–99|doi=10.1057/pcs.2008.15 |s2cid=147088373|access-date=17 December 2010|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and author of several works on the subject: ''Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious'' (1991), ''Beyond Sexuality'' (2000),<ref name=downing/> and ''[[Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking]]'' (2009),<ref>{{cite web|title=On Bareback Subcultures and the Pornography of Risk |url=http://slought.org/content/11332/|publisher=[[Slought Foundation]]|access-date=17 December 2010}}</ref> all published by the University of Chicago Press, and a co-editor of ''Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis'' (2001). Dean published ''Hatred of Sex'' together with Oliver Davis in 2022.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hatred of Sex |url=https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496230591/|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]|access-date=2 January 2023}}</ref>
Dean first became a British civil servant before attending the [[University of East Anglia]], during which time he participated in a Junior Year Abroad program at [[Brandeis University]], and wrote his undergraduate dissertation on [[Gary Snyder]] before graduating BA with First Class Honours in American Studies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://illinois.academia.edu/TimDean/CurriculumVitae|title = Tim Dean | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Academia.edu}}</ref> He subsequently earned his PhD at [[Johns Hopkins University]] (doctoral dissertation on [[Hart Crane]]). He was a Fellow at the [[Stanford Humanities Center]] (1997-1998).<ref>{{cite web|title=Fellows Update|url=http://shc.stanford.edu/intellectual-life/news/fellows-update-0|publisher=Stanford Humanities Center|access-date=17 December 2010|date=26 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705085334/http://shc.stanford.edu/intellectual-life/news/fellows-update-0|archive-date=5 July 2010}}</ref> He teaches at the [[University of Illinois]] ([[Urbana-Champaign]]).
==Publications== ===Monographs=== *''Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious''. University of Chicago Press, 1991. * {{cite book|year=2000|last=Dean|first=Tim|title=Beyond Sexuality|url=https://archive.org/details/beyondsexuality0000dean/|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|ISBN=0-226-13935-2 |url-access=limited}} *''[[Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking]]''. University of Chicago Press, 2009. *''Hatred of Sex''. University of Nebraska Press, 2022. With Oliver Davis.
===Edited volumes=== * ''Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis'' (2001) – co-edited by Dean
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