Sam Norcross is a PhD candidate in the English department at Tufts University, where he has also worked as a First Year Writing instructor, a Teaching Assistant, and a Graduate Writing Consultant for the Student Accessibility and Academic Resources Center. Before he began his graduate studies at Tufts, he was a Research Affiliate in a material sciences lab at MIT, and his recent scholarship explores intersections between the biological sciences, queer theory, and postmodern American literature.