Sam Norcross
Department of English
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.
As a CHAT Fellow, he is currently working on his dissertation "Signs of Life: Science, Literature, and the Code in Post/Modern American Discourse," which uses psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theories of language to examine the emergence of the genetic code and its impact on our understanding of human life. He has previously presented at conferences such as MLA, NEMLA, and the Boston Graduate Humanities Consortium, has published his work as a contributor to the Mid Theory Collective, and has upcoming publications in Trace: Journal for Human-Animal Studies and a collection of scholarly essays on Japanese videogames.
