John Constantine Tobin
Education
B.A., Creative Writing and Literature (Poetry), focus on East Asian Literature, University of Michigan
B.A., Biopsychology, Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Michigan
M.F.A., Creative Writing and Publishing (Poetry), University of Baltimore
Ph.D., Creative Writing and Literature (Poetry and Nonfiction), University of Southern Mississippi
Research Expertise
Creative Writing
LGBTQ Studies
Modernist
Dr. John Constantine Tobin (he/him) is an English Lecturer at the University of Maryland where he teaches various forms of writing and LGBTQ Literature. His literary work seeks to establish queer lineages of authorship across time and the globe in western and non-western contexts. Creatively, he is interested in the relationships between queerness and divinity, and how queer people integrate into both home and ecological environments. He is a Co-Founder of Merfolk Games in Shanghai. His recent work has been published in Shenandoah Literary, Quarter After Eight, Silver Rose Magazine, Beyond Queer Words in Berlin, and Alluvium - The Journal of Literary Shanghai, as well as the Mississippi Race, Gender, and Sexuality Symposium. He studied at the 2023 Juniper Summer Writing Institute on a full scholarship for marginalized groups.