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This broader community of collaborators and contemporaries included software engineer Cicely Popplewell, who, Fancher writes, was hired as an assistant to Turing but she had a long career and deep expertise especially with early computer programming. Theres also gay men, such as Christopher Strachey, whose excitement for gaming, artificial intelligence and how computers may someday express emotion kept him up at night.

For scholars who study technical writing and the history of computers, my book adds an element of intimacy and care, said Fancher, who has a PhD in rhetoric from Clemson University and has been teaching writing at UCSB since 2014. For my feminist and queer theory colleagues, I hope my book will open up new directions for research queer feminist communities are located in some unexpected places, including STEM fields that we associate with being very male-dominated and heteronormative.

Fancher will share research methods and highlights and field questions about the book starting at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 3, at the West Conference Center. The event is free and open to the public.

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New book explores gay, queer and feminist community at the heart of early advances in computer science - The UCSB Current