Harris Kornstein

Harris Kornstein is a scholar and artist whose work focuses on queer play through contemporary technologies and digital cultures, media art and activism, disability justice, and queer/trans studies. They co-edited the anthology How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press, 2025), and their research has been published in academic journals like Surveillance & Society and Curriculum Inquiry, while their essays have appeared in publications like The Guardian, Wired, and Salon. Additionally, their research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Harris is currently Assistant Professor of Public & Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona and earned a PhD in Media, Culture & Communication from NYU, an MFA in Digital Arts & New Media from UC Santa Cruz, and a BA in Sociology/Anthropology from Swarthmore College.