Lucas Wilson

Formerly the Justice, Equity, and Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary (2022–2024), Wilson is a public-facing, interdisciplinary scholar of history, religion, gender, sexuality, and literature, with a keen interest in creative nonfiction. He is the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2025) and the author of At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives (Rutgers University Press, 2025), which received the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award. He is also the co-editor of Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature (Lexington Books, 2023), which was named a 2024 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title. His other academic work has appeared in Modern Language Studies, Canadian Jewish Studies, Flannery O’Connor Review, Journal of Jewish Identities, and Studies in American Jewish Literature and in edited collections published by The MLA, SUNY Press, The University of Alabama Press, and DIO Press. His public-facing writing has appeared in The Advocate, Queerty, LGBTQ Nation, and Religion Dispatches, among other venues. He is currently working on a new edited collection about LGBTQ+ experiences at Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries, tentatively titled Don't Ask, Tell All: Stories of Christian Colleges' Antiqueer Regimes (under contract with University of Georgia Press). Wilson is currently a top three finalist for the SSHRC Talent Award.