Tomasz Basiuk (dr hab.) is a faculty member at the University of Warsaw American Studies Center. His research interests include life writing by members of sexual minorities and queer theory. He has published and taught courses on queer studies since the late 1990s. He authored Exposures. American Gay Men’s Life Writing since Stonewall (2013) and co-edited Odmiany odmieńca. A Queer Mixture (2002), Parametry pożądania (2006) and Out Here (2006). Recipient of a Fulbright research grant (at The CUNY Graduate Center). Basiuk is a founding co-editor of InterAlia: a queer studies journal and is currently PI in the HERA-funded project “Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures.”