Alum profile: Dr. Danielle Bacibianco

Another of our distinguished alums, Dr. Danielle Bacibianco, has published an article in a recent symposium in the venerable journal College English. Her essay is part of a 50-year retrospective on the pioneering book The Homosexual Imagination.

Dr. Bacibianco’s contribution, “Alcoholics Anonymous and Its Homophobic Imagination” takes the form of a letter to “My Fellows at Alcoholics Anonymous,” this essay describes Dr. Bacibianco’s engagement with the homophobic culture of the AA recovery movement.

Here’s the full citation for the article –

Bacibianco, Danielle. “Alcoholics Anonymous and Its Homophobic Imagination.” The  Homosexual Imagination: A Fifty-Year Retrospective. Michael J. Faris and T.J. Geiger, et. al. College English, National Council of Teachers of English, vol. 86, no. 6, 2024: pp. 455-458.

Danielle Bacibianco (she/her) is an Adjunct Lecturer for Kean University. Danielle’s dissertation, Queerstory of Recovery: Literacy and Survival in A.A. (2021), received the 2022 Conference on College Composition and Communication Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship Dissertation Award. Danielle continues to explore activist research practices for queer recovery literacy and rhetorical studies through her podcast Voices from Rock Bottom and the online sober initiative on Discord, Sober Academics. In addition, Danielle also has another publication coming out, “Queerstory of Recovery” for Writers: Craft and Context, vol. 5, no. 1, 2024.

We are very happy to celebrate Dr. Bacibianco’s work!

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I teach Shakespeare and the blue humanities at St. John's in New York City.

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