Ronny Fay Ford

Medieval Gender and Sexuality Transgressions

Office: C711 Wells Hall
Email: fordron@msu.edu

Ronny Fay Ford is a PhD student in the English Department at MSU, where they also obtained their bachelors in creative writing. Ronny Fay studies gender, desire, sexuality, and transness in medieval French, English, and Latin texts. They focus primarily on romances as textual sites of difference in which ideas of gender, class, and race can be explored. Ronny Fay has particular interest in how emotionality and queer connections influence readings of queer medieval texts, as well as how the queer past has been overlooked and sometimes erased out of a desire to locate a queer discursive explosion under the influence of modernity.

Ronny Fay has several creative and scholarly publications, listed below:

Poetry
• Sagebrush Review XII (“God can’t always be God”)
• Vagabond City (“on my gender being illegal”)
• OCEANS AND TIME BLOG (“laundry room surgery”)
• Junk Drawer of Trans Voices Issue 3 (“Christmas Snow”)
• Cerurove Press Issue 4 (“On Being Baptized in a Drought”)
• Picaroon Poetry #16 (“I’ve Killed Things”)
• Kissing Dynamite (“Look for Rain when the Crow Flies Low”)
• Peculiars Magazine (“Call Me Debris”)
• Homology Lit (“The Slowest Thing”)
• Junk Drawer of Trans Voices Issue 4 (“I am sitting in a meadow”)

Creative Nonfiction
• Ford, Ronny F. (2020) “Sexual and Erotic Transgression Through Aesthetic History: A Study of Algernon Charles Swinburne,” Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship: Vol. 1 , Article 3.
• Vagabond City (“Fear: A Collage”)
• Junk Drawer of Trans Voices Anniversary Issue (“No Hysterosalpingogram Will Save You”)
• First Person Scholar (“Gendered Spaces and Cultures in Video Games”)