Alexander Monea

Alexander Monea is an Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University. He received his PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media from NC State University in 2016. He researches the history and cultural impacts of computers and digital media with a specific focus on their impacts on marginalized communities.

Monea is the author of The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight from MIT Press, co-author of The Prisonhouse of the Circuit from the University of Minnesota Press, and co-editor Amazon: At the Intersection of Culture and Capital from Rowman & Littlefield. His work has also been featured in myriad academic journals.