James Penner is an associate professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Southern California, he is the author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture (2011) and the editor of Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years (2014). He divides his time between San Juan and Los Angeles.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Resuscitating the Psychedelic Sensibility
Jon Savage’s "1966" looks at a pivotal year in history via its music....
David Bowie and the 1970s: Testing the Limits of the Gendered Body
David Bowie and the 1970s: Testing the Limits of the Gendered Body...
The Rise and Fall of LSD
The history of LSD in the United States, and its strange path from legitimacy to illegitimacy, is a fascinating tale that needs to be better understood....
