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Manorexia: How anorexia and bodybuilding helped me navigate locker-rooms, gyms, jails and other male spaces

A Book in Progress discussion by Professor of English Harold A. Veeser

Thursday, April 16, 5:00 – 6:30pm

IN PERSON (NA 6/316)

Harold Aram Veeser, English Professor and 2025-2026 Rifkind Fellow will read from and discuss his book in progress, a memoir of male anorexia confessions. While current hospital records show that more males than ever are presenting with eating disorders, few male anorexic memoirs have appeared. In Manorexia, he seeks to correct this record, offering a first-hand account of his sixty-year long pursuit of thinness and muscularity. 

Prof. Veeser teaches at the English Department at City College of New York, as well as at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Biography and Memoir (BAM) program and the MEMEAC program. He is the author of Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism (Routledge) and the editor of numerous books, including The New Historicism and Confessions of the Critics. 

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC