Dr Diarmuid Hester

Diarmuid is one of our College Research Associates, and is based at the Faculty of English, at the University of Cambridge as an Affiliated Lecturer.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr Diarmuid Hester is a cultural historian of gender and sexuality and author of the critically acclaimed books Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper (University of Iowa Press, 2020) and Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2023). He has held research fellowships at the Library of Congress, New York University, the British Library, and the University of Oxford, and was a Leverhulme Fellow in English at the University of Cambridge from 2017-2021. Diarmuid’s academic writing has appeared in the likes of American Literature, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Textual Practice; he has also written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, n+1, the New Inquiry, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other places. Diarmuid regularly contributes to BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 as a BBC New Generation Thinker. He teaches at the Faculty of English, where he is an Affiliated Lecturer, and is currently at work on a cultural history of masculinity in crisis.