Lucas Wilson

Fields of Study

• White Christian Nationalism
• Gender and Sexuality
• Affect Theory
• Memory Studies
• 20^th and 21^st-century U.S. Literatures 
• The Holocaust

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

Biography

Formerly the Justice, Equity, and Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary (2022–2024), Wilson is a public-facing, interdisciplinary scholar of history, religion, and literature. He is the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy (JKP Books, 2025) and the author of At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Literature (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, 2023), which was named an “essential” title by Choice Reviews. His 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 scholarship has appeared in The Advocate, Queerty, LGBTQ Nation, and Religion Dispatches, among other venues. He is currently working on two interrelated monograph projects that examine homophobia and transphobia in the New Christian Right in the U.S.

Education

PhD, Florida Atlantic University

MTS, Vanderbilt University

MA, McMaster University