Brady James Forrest is a scholar of queer of color critique, feminist disability studies, and trans studies engaged in transdisciplinary approaches to visual culture, fine art, and literature. Their manuscript in progress, Erotics in the Flesh: Crip Feeling, Queer Intimacy, and the Trans Gaze, analyzes late 20th and early 21st century minoritarian cultural production to argue for the worlding potential of embodied affect in the face of intensifying Liberalism and state violence. Their work has been published as part of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies special issue on Disability and Emotion and the Transgender Studies Quarterly Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory special issue.
In 2024, they received their PhD in English from George Washington University with area specializations in Crip/Queer Studies and American Literature and Culture. While at GW they co-organized the 2018 Composing Disability Studies Conference and co-founded and led the Department of English Crip/Queer Reading Group.
Forrest has presented work at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, the Museum of Popular Culture Conference, the DC Queer Studies Symposium, the Northeast MLA Annual Convention, Reaching Out MBA Annual Conference, the Critical Ethnic Studies Association Conference, and the Center for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University.
