Eric Sneathen is the Arts and Humanities Research and Development GSR for 2021-2022. He is a poet and queer literary historian living in Oakland. From 2019-2020, he was a THI Public Fellow working with the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco to complete the San Francisco ACT UP Oral History Project, funded by California Humanities. His writing and scholarship have been supported by a number of grants and fellowships from UCSC, UC San Diego, and the University of Buffalo. In June he'll be graduating with a PhD in Literature, with a concentration in Creative-Critical Studies.