Tim Dean

{{Short description|British academic and queer theorist}}

{{distinguish|text = the Australian philosopher}}

Tim Dean is a British academic, author, notable in the field of contemporary queer theory,{{cite book|title=Henry James and queer modernity|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-81394-5|pages=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SRWfbGDJVAcC&pg=PA14 |author= Eric L. Haralson|access-date=17 December 2010}}{{cite journal|last=Downing|first=Lisa|title=Beyond Sexuality: Review|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=34|issue=2|pages=255–263|doi=10.1007/s10508-005-1802-1|s2cid=189872704}}{{cite journal|last= Rickard|first=G Keilan|url=http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pcs/journal/v14/n1/full/pcs200815a.html|title=The land of big queers: A fairy's tale (To be read aloud then discarded just as quickly)|journal=Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society |year=2009|volume=14|pages=89–99|doi=10.1057/pcs.2008.15 |s2cid=147088373|access-date=17 December 2010}} and author of several works on the subject: Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious (1991), Beyond Sexuality (2000), and Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (2009),{{cite web|title=On Bareback Subcultures and the Pornography of Risk |url=http://slought.org/content/11332/|publisher=Slought Foundation|access-date=17 December 2010}} all published by the University of Chicago Press, and a co-editor of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (2001). Dean published Hatred of Sex together with Oliver Davis in 2022.{{cite book|title=Hatred of Sex |url=https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496230591/|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|access-date=2 January 2023}}

Dean first became a British civil servant before attending the University of East Anglia, during which time he participated in a Junior Year Abroad program at Brandeis University, and wrote his undergraduate dissertation on Gary Snyder before graduating BA with First Class Honours in American Studies.{{Cite web|url=https://illinois.academia.edu/TimDean/CurriculumVitae|title = Tim Dean | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Academia.edu}} He subsequently earned his PhD at Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation on Hart Crane). He was a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (1997-1998).{{cite web|title=Fellows Update|url=http://shc.stanford.edu/intellectual-life/news/fellows-update-0|publisher=Stanford Humanities Center|access-date=17 December 2010|date=26 February 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705085334/http://shc.stanford.edu/intellectual-life/news/fellows-update-0|archive-date=5 July 2010}} He teaches at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).