James Penner is an associate professor of English at University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras. He is the author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture (Indiana University) and the editor of Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years (Park Street).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Guide for Psychedelic Virgins and Skeptics?
The publication of "How to Change Your Mind" in 2018 is one of many indications that we are witnessing a cultural sea change with regard to psychedelics....
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....
