Rob Faunce teaches at Stony Brook University as a member of the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and the Gender and Women's Studies department. His dissertation, A Semester in Purgatory: At the Intersections of Queerness, Mourning, Pedagogy, and Interpellation, is a memoir on loss, a meditation on queerness today, a manifesto eschewing demagoguery in the classroom, and the first autobiographical dissertation filed at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is currently working on a project on teaching queer relationships in film adaptations of the works of Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams in the composition classroom.