Lynn Comella, Ph.D. is a professor of gender and sexuality studies in the department of interdisciplinary, gender, and ethnic studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. An expert on sexual economies and the adult entertainment industry, her research has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Jezebel, BUST, and more.

She is the author of Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure (Duke University Press, 2017) and co-editor of New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law (Praeger, 2015). Her work has also appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Porn Studies, Feminist Media Studies, The Feminist Porn Book, Commodity Activism, Contexts, Sex for Sale, and New Sociologies of Sex Work, among other venues.

She is co-chair of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Adult Film History Scholarly Interest Group and a regular contributor to Forbes, where she covers the business of sex. She received the 2015 Nevada Regents’ Rising Researcher Award in recognition of early-career accomplishments and is a frequent media commentator.

Comella received a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; an M.A. in gender studies and feminist theory from the New School for Social Research; and a B.A. in psychology, with minors in anthropology and women’s studies, from Penn State University.

She lives in Downtown Las Vegas with her husband and their three mischievous cats.

For media and press inquiries, or to book an event or lecture, please send an email to lynn@lynncomella.com. For press copies of Vibrator Nation, please contact Laura Sell at Duke University Press (lsell@dukeupress.edu).