Lynn Comella

Lynn Comella is associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the author of Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure (Duke University Press, 2017) and coeditor of New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law (with Shira Tarrant; Praeger, 2015). She has written extensively about gender, sexuality, and marketplace culture for both academic publications and popular media outlets. She is the recipient of the 2015 Nevada Regents’ Rising Researcher Award in recognition of early-career accomplishments and is a frequent media commentator.