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Tommy Mayberry


Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
About

Tommy Mayberry is a PhD candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. He holds a Joints Honours BA in English Literature and Fine Arts: Studio, with Dean's Honours, from the University of Waterloo and an MA in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster University. He has been the recipient of two Ontario Graduate Scholarships, and he is currently a recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. His dissertation, "Gods and Monsters: Drag Bodies, Gaga Academia, and Nineteenth-Century British Art and Literature," focuses transhistorically on drag (queen/king) culture as he mixes clothing, wigs, and make-up with his academic writing to embody his research.

Books by Tommy Mayberry