Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Faculty positions Prior to Denizet's hiring as an assistant professor at Emerson College, he taught non-fiction and magazine writing at Northeastern University and Tufts University, and held, in 2012, the position of Merton M. Sealts Jr. Writer-in-Residence in Ohio at The College of Wooster,

As of August 2023, Denizet-Lewis remained on faculty at Emerson College, where he was serving as an associate professor in their Writing, Literature and Publishing department.

Magazine writing Denizet-Lewis' magazine work includes extensive publications, as a contributing writer, in The New York Times Magazine, a role in which he was still active as of August 2023. led all stories in the magazine in 2017 with regard to its being most clicked on (and inferentially, read), according to a 2017, near year-end readership ranking by The Times.

Besides NYTimes Magazine and Slate.com, Denizet-Lewis's work has also appeared in a variety of other periodicals, including Details, Salon.com, Sports Illustrated, The Advocate, and The New Republic;

Denizet-Lewis' first book, in 2009, was America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, ).

Denizet-Lewis's fourth book, the 2026 You've Changed, was described as a "deeply moving exploration of personal transformation in a period of roiling uncertainty... [investigating] how we remake ourselves—and how identity, belief, and belonging shift in a world that won’t stop doing the same."

Other media Denizet-Lewis' 2011 piece, “My Ex-Gay Friend,” which appeared in The New York Times Magazine. provided the basis for the 2015 Justin Kelly film, I Am Michael, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and which was co-produced by Denizet-Lewis. He has also appeared on television and radio programs, and in other public fora, including NPR's Talk of the Nation.

Literary analysis To an extent, works like Denzet-Lewis' article, "Coming Out in Middle School", have been used as observational touchstones in academic works, for instance in a legal analysis where it is cited as the earliest of three sources to support the contention that as children "come out" at younger and younger ages, "school administrators have had to develop policies to address the... interactions that students will experience...". Alongside, McClune Jr. noted that as a result of Denizet-Lewis' journalism, "the [Down Low] term gained greater currency among the larger Americal public."

With regard to particular, in-depth perspective offered in review of particular of this author's works, it is noteworthy that Publishers Weekly describes Denizet-Lewis' second book, the January 2010-released journalism compilation, American Voyeur: Dispatches From the Far Reaches of Modern Life, as offering "stirring and sensitive portraits of individuals—frequently adolescents—struggling to articulate desire and identity while bearing the weight of societal taboo and marginalization".

Awards and recognition The Alicia Patterson Foundation awarded Denizet-Lewis' a one-year grant in 2004, while he was working freelance, to support research and writing to document a perceived epidemic of American teen suicide at that time. The Advocate, as of 2007, "the oldest [existing] continuously published U.S. gay periodical", named Denizet-Lewis, in 2009, to its "Forty Under 40: Media" list, spotlighting him and fellow awardees as the most influential LGBT individuals working in media at that time.

In March 2010, Denizet-Lewis was the recipient of that year's award for "Outstanding Magazine Article" at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD's) New York City event of the 21st GLAAD Media Awards, for his article "Coming Out in Middle School", from the The New York Times Magazine. In July 2010, he received that year's Excellence in Journalism Award for feature writing from The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists (NLGJA), for the same article.

In 2022, Denizet-Lewis was named a Fellow in the New America National Fellows Program. In 2023, Denizet-Lewis received one of the 28 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars awards for popular nonfiction, his to complete chapters remaining in a new book he was preparing, tentatively titled, We Don't Know You Anymore: Identity Change in America; the work focuses, as he describes it, on "how and why we change our identities and belief systems during a time of both heightened malleability and ideological inflexibility". Personal life Denizet-Lewis is a citizen of both France and the United States.

As of 2007, his alumnus profile reported that Benedicte Denizet, his French-born mother, was living in Paris, France, working as a translator, and "organiz[ing] walking and cycling tours through France and Spain"; and Prague. As of 2007, his alumnus profile reported that when Denizet-Lewis is not writing, he enjoyed "playing and watching sports, listening to music, travelling, reading, and spending time with his friends and family".