Barounis received her PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012. Her work focuses on cultural representations queerness and disability in literature, television, and film. Her first book, Vulnerable Constitutions (2019) explores the way the medicalization of queerness in the twentieth century led to the creation of a new counternarrative of American masculinity. Barounis’s newer work has taken up feminist psychiatric disability studies and asexuality studies and she is currently developing a second book manuscript on disability and the camp aesthetic tentatively titled The Biopolitics of Camp.
Books:
Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood. Temple University Press, 2019.
