Patricia Fancher is a teacher and writer at UC Santa Barbara. Her first book, Queer Techné: Bodies, Rhetorics, and Desire in the History of Computing was released in April 2024. Her scholarly and creative writing can be found at pfancher.com
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
