Dr. Andrew Rimby

Pronouns: he, him, his 

PhD in English, Stony Brook University 

Host/Director, The Ivory Tower Boiler Room

Dr. Andrew Rimby (he/him/his) is a queer male LGBTQ+ literary scholar who specializes in 19th-century American and British literature. He holds a PhD in English and a Grad. Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stony Brook University. He is the 2019 inaugural recipient of the Guiliano Global Fellowship, a 2019-2020 Public Humanities Fellow, and a Spring 2022 IDEA Grad Fellow. His publications include “Talking Back to Walt Whitman” in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and “Walt Whitman and Queer Theory” in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Gale).