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"Dr. Dru" Pagliassotti teaches classes in news writing, editing, and Web publishing, as well as one of the Communication Department's senior capstone courses, film theory. She runs The Yaoi Research Wiki and studies boys' love (yaoi) manga and the rise as a discrete publishing niche of the female-authored male/male romance novel.

Dr. Pagliassotti also writes both short stories and novels. She runs The Harrow Press, which prints horror anthologies, and she was the founder and editor in chief of The Harrow, a literary magazine for fantasy and horror that ran online for 11.5 years. Her past professional experience includes editorial work on print books, journals, and trade magazines; freelance Web site design; and serving as a content provider on roleplaying games for About.Com. 

Education

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Communication
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology
Graduate certificate in Gender Studies, University of Southern California
M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California, Communication Theory & Research

Publications

ACADEMIC:

Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre. Levi, McHarry & Pagliassotti (Ed.). McFarland Publishers, 2010.

GloBLisation and Hybridisation:Publishers’ Strategies for Bringing Boys’ Love to the United States. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 20. April 2009.

Reading Boys’ Love in the West. Participations, 5(2). November 2008.

FICTION:

Novels:

An Agreement with Hell (Apex Book Company, 2010)

Clockwork Heart (Juno Books, 2008)

Short stories:

Peter, Peter (reprint, The Three-Lobed Burning Eye Annual, v. 4, edited by Andrew S. Fuller, from Legion Press, November 2009)

The Manufactory (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, November 19, 2009 — audio version posted January 21, 2010)

Terminus (w/Jo Gerrard; Magic & Mechanica, Ricasso Press, January 2009)

Bookmarked (Reflection’s Edge, October 2007). Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (2008).

Night Shift (Worlds of Wonder, July 2007)

Changing the End (Anotherealm; July 2007)

Defender of the Faith (Reflection’s Edge, August 2006)

Strange Vintage (Fear of the Unknown, March 2005)

Joseph’s Plaint (Ideomancer, June 2004)

Peter, Peter (Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Summer 2003)

Pan de los Muertos (Strange Horizons, April 2003)

After the Sleep (Dark Fire, March 2003)

Analogues (Erratica, Spring 1997: reproduced on this site)

OTHER:

“Twelve Reasons to Roleplay.” In Packer, Alex J. (2000). Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel REALLY Good … Without Alcohol or Other Drugs. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing.