Lucas Wilson

Previously the Justice, Equity, and Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary, Dr. Lucas Wilson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga. As a former evangelical and a survivor of conversion therapy, he is the editor of Don't Ask, Tell All: Stories of Christian College's Anti-LGBTQ+ Regimes (2027) and Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy (2025). He is also the author of At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives (2025), which received the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award. He is also the co-editor of Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature (2023), which was named a 2024 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title. He is currently working on a new anthology titled Queer and Trembling: Stories of LGBTQ+ Religious Trauma (under contract), in addition to two interrelated monograph projects that examine evangelical homophobia and transphobia in the U.S. Follow him here on Amazon, so you’ll get notified when his next book comes out!