SELECT PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
“Crip Silences, Crip Futurities, Crip Joy,” a podcast by Delores B. Phillips, Alyson Patsavas, Theodora Danylevich, Alyson K. Spurgas, Jess Whatcott and Angela Carter | Issue 14.2 (Fall 2025) | Positions. Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association’s Crip Cultures / Critical Disability Studies Working Group Co-Host Theodora Danylevich discuss crip silences, crip futurities, and crip joy with authors Alyson Patsavas (University of Illinois, Chicago), Alyson K. Spurgas (Trinity College), and Jess Whatcott (San Diego State University). This peer-reviewed podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Angela Carter.
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2021. “Solidarity in Falling Apart: Toward a Crip, Collectivist, and Justice-Seeking Theory of Feminine Fracture.” Lateral 10.1 (Spring 2021).
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2016. “Low Desire, Trauma and Femininity in the DSM-5: A Case for Sequelae.” Psychology & Sexuality 7: 48-67.
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2013. “Gendered Populations and Trauma Beyond Oedipus: Reply to Angel’s Commentary.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 14: 217-223.
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2013. “Interest, Arousal, and Shifting Diagnoses of Female Sexual Dysfunction, or: How Women Learn about Desire.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 14: 187-205. **Winner of the 2013 Alexandra Symonds Prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality** (with an introduction by Muriel Dimen).
Borck, C. Ray, Jesse Goldstein, Steve McFarland, & Alyson K. Spurgas. 2013. “#occupyoureducation.” Radical Teacher 96: 39-47.
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2012. “Where is My Subjectivity? Techno-Imagery, Femininity and Desire.” Social Text/Periscope (part of the “Neuroculture” dossier).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS IN EDITED VOLUMES
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2024. “From the Bedroom to the Laboratory: Clinical Intimacies, Paraerotic Potential, and Therapeutic Excess.” Pp. 136-158 in Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition), edited by K.J. Cerankowski and Megan Milks. New York & London: Routledge.
Spurgas, Alyson K. & Elliot Schwebach. 2023. “Feminized Trauma, Responsive Desire, and Social/Global Logics of Control: A Dialogue.” Pp. 133-149 in Globalization, Displacement, and Psychiatry: Global Histories of Trauma, edited by Sanaullah Khan and Elliott Schwebach. New York & London: Routledge.
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2022. “The Feminization of ‘Responsive’ Desire.” Pp. 401-409 in Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, Fourth Edition, edited by Nancy Fischer and Laurel Westbrook with Steven Seidman. New York & London: Routledge.
Kleinplatz, Peggy J., Lianne Rosen, Maxime Charest, & Alyson K. Spurgas. 2020. “Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunction: Critical Analyses.” Pp. 443-454 in The International Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health, First Edition, edited by Jane Ussher, Janette Perz, and Joan Chrisler. New York & London: Routledge.
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2009. “(Un)Queering Identity: The Biosocial Production of Intersex/DSD.” Pp. 97-122 in Critical Intersex, edited by Morgan Holmes. London: Ashgate Press.
SELECT POPULAR & PUBLIC WRITING, BOOK REVIEWS, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Spurgas, Alyson K., Yumi Pak, Robert F. Carley, andré m. carrington, Eero Laine, SAJ, & Chris Alen Sula. 2023. “Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Studies Toward a Free Palestine.” Lateral 12.2 (Fall 2023).
Tiede, Hans-Joerg, Samantha McCarthy, Isaac Kamola, & Alyson K. Spurgas. 2021. “Whom Does Campus Reform Target? And What are the Effects?” Academe: Magazine of the American Association of University Professors.
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2021. “Reclaiming Receptivity: Parasexual Pleasure in the Face of Compulsory and Feminized Trauma.” ASA Sex & Gender Section Newsletter (Spring 2021).
Spurgas, Alyson K. 2016. “Solving Desire.” The New Inquiry.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Brnovic, Teodora & Alyson K. Spurgas. [2026]. “The Queer/Crip Time of “Previving”: Debility, Biopolitics, and Reproductive Futurism.” Article under review.
Spurgas, Alyson K. [2026]. “Assembling Scapegoats & Saviors: Sexbots at the Limits of Technocare.” Article in progress.