Jason Jacobs is Associate Professor of Literature at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, specializing in medieval French and Italian literature, literary criticism and theory, and gender and sexuality studies. Jacobs has published on medieval literature in journals such as Exemplaria, California Italian Studies, and postmedieval, and on contemporary queer culture in GLQ and QED. After eight years in academic administration, he is returning to full time teaching in the Spring of 2024 and will be teaching courses on literary analysis, pre- and early-modern European literature, and modern queer literature and media.