Alexander Monea is an Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University. He received his PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media from NC State University in 2016. He researches the history and cultural impacts of computers and digital media with a specific focus on their impacts on marginalized communities. Monea is the author of The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight forthcoming from MIT Press in April 2022, co-author of The Prisonhouse of the Circuit forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in Fall 2022, and editor of a critical anthology on Amazon.com forthcoming from Rowman & Littlefield in 2023. His work has also been featured in myriad academic journals.