Davy Knittle (he/they) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware. In 2022, he was HMEI/Princeton Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism & the Environment at Princeton University. Davy is at work on a book project entitled “Urbanist Desire and the Ecology of Queer and Trans Survival,” which argues that the environmental, racial, sexual, and gender norms supported by urban redevelopment projects in the 1950s and 1960s shaped the subsequent politicization of queer, trans, and environmental loss and speculation about contested futures. His critical work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Feminist Formations, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Perspecta, PMLA, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Planning Perspectives. From 2016-2021, he curated the City Planning Poetics talk and reading series at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania.

Contact Davy at dknittle@udel.edu