Philip Bonanno

Professional Bio

Philip comes to Penn State to pursue his PhD in English and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies. His research interests include theories of futurity for disability in speculative fiction, cultural theory, theories of identity, and feminist philosophy. Most specifically, Philip is interested in how liberal discourses of identity limit new materialist assemblages from occurring in mainstream discourses.

Philip is also passionate about accessible pedagogy and has worked on multiple workshops for anti-ableist pedagogies. He is interested in how anti-accomodation discourse has proliferated in the corporate university recently, and what implications that has for the student, both rhetorically and materially.

He came to Penn State from his undergraduate institution in Brunswick, Maine.