Andrew Rimby

Andrew Rimby (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. Candidate and queer activist at Stony Brook University researching 19th-century literature from a queer transatlantic perspective. He is the 2019 inaugural recipient of the Guiliano Global Fellowship, a 2019-2020 Public Humanities Fellow, a 2019 Stony Brook Graduate Fellow in the Arts, Humanities, and Lettered Social Sciences, and recently a Spring 2022 IDEA Grad Fellow. He is the Executive Director of The Ivory Tower Boiler Room, a Public Humanities podcast that features literary and artistic interviews. He is the Curator of the Whitman Tane Library for the Walt Whitman Initiative where he also serves as a board member. He recently published "Talking Back to Walt Whitman" in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and he is the Associate Editor for the Watchung Review.