Writing for the Public

Here are some of my clips:

Symonds’s Facts, Our Future,” Public Books, July 5, 2023

In Plain Sight” [review of Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality], History Today, April 2021

Can We Talk About Sex? Please? A review of Jennifer Hirsch’s and Shamus Khan’s ‘Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus’,” Public Seminar, September 10, 2020

What’s Missing in Naomi Wolf’s ‘Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love’,” Public Seminar, June 25, 2019 (mentioned in the New York Times on July 9, 2019)

‘Never in the Presence of Any Woman’: Male Homoeroticism and Elite Education,” History Workshop Online, January 21, 2019

The 1970s Gay Sex Scandal That Enthralled Britons Is Back” [on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal and A Very English Scandal (BBC)], Public Seminar, June 26, 2018

Dare to Speak its Name: Pederasty in the Classical Tropes of ‘Call Me By Your Name’,” Eidolon, February 2018

I am also active on Twitter, where you can follow me @echomikeromeo.