Brady James Forrest is a cultural theorist, teacher, and writer originally from Southern California who currently resides just outside of Washington D.C. They are currently adjunct faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University where they specialize in transdisciplinary approaches to literature and visual culture informed by trans/queer theory, critical disability studies, and critical race theory. In 2024, they received their PhD in English from George Washington University with area specializations in Crip/Queer Studies and American Literature and Culture. While at GW they co-organized the 2018 Composing Disability Studies Conference and co-founded and led the Department of English Crip/Queer Reading Group.