Joseph Osmundson


Joseph Osmundson is a scientist and writer. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University. Osmundson is the author of various books exploring bodies, queerness, race, and geography.

Education

Osmundson has a Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biophysics from the Rockefeller University. His 2012 dissertation was titled rRNA Promoters as Targets for Transcription Factors: Structural and Functional Studies of PhERI and CarD. His doctoral advisor was Seth Darst.

Career

Osmundson's research on protein structure and function has been published in scientific journals such as Cell and PNAS. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University.
Osmundson creative work on bodies, queerness, race, and geography has appeared, among others, in Medium, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Gawker, Guernica, the Kenyon Review, the Lambda Literary Review, and the Feminist Wire, where he is an associate editor. His 2016 book Capsid: A Love Song won the POZ Award for best HIV writing and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and his second book, INSIDE/OUT, was published in January 2018. With fellow queer writers Dennis Norris II, Tommy Pico, and Fran Tirado, he co-hosts Food 4 Thot, a podcast "at the intersection of queerness and brownness," with subject matters ranging "from Beyoncé to Borges, politics to peen sizes, Nietzsche to 90s R&B."

Selected works

Books