https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8699-6547
Sean Pessin has lived in Los Angeles his whole life. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist who attended Otis College of Art and Design as well as CSU Northridge. He has studied Literature, Creative Writing, Pedagogy, Critical and Cultural Theory, and Book Arts at these institutions and in Los Angeles broadly. He is currently working on a PhD in Information Studies at UCLA. His current research is on publishing and aesthetics.
He teaches in the Department of English and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies at CSU Northridge, and he teaches in the Humanities Program at Colburn School. In all his pedagogical roles, he explores interdisciplinary humanities topics (literary magazine, inter/multi/transdisciplinary methods and methodologies, intertextuality, fairy tales, queer theory, comics and graphic novels, creative writing, critical theory, and world literature), as well as book arts and print culture courses to international audiences in Italy, Kosovo, and online with California Rare Book School.
His chapbook, Thank You for Listening was published by Mindmade Books in 2017; his chapbook Three Stories was published by Magra Books in 2021. Poems of his has appeared in Poetry from Instructions. A critical article of his, “Making Bookmaking Communities: Popular Publishing Cultures and Makerspaces” appeared in the edited collection Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library.
Sean is co-editor of Magra Books. He is the faculty adviser of CSUN’s Northridge Review. He is co-editing with Dr. Robert D. Montoya, Crop and Bleed: An Information Studies Reader on New Boundaries in Critical Print and Visual Culture, forthcoming from Litwin Press.
His work is always fabulous and strange and queer.
