The TC Sexuality Studies forum represents those with a major interest in queer studies and theory, LGBTQ studies and theory, LGBTQ history and culture.
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
This article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 1 year ago
The aestheticism of Walter Pater and Vernon Lee participated in a late-nineteenth-century discourse devoted to exploring the aesthetic’s role in producing and sustaining, as well as undermining, notions of racial difference. Pater’s “A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew” (1876) and Lee’s “Dionea” (1890) partake of Immanue…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 1 year ago
This article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies and recognize that such contradictions exist in both the Western and non-Western world.
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Dustin Friedman deposited Negative Eroticism: Lyric Performativity and the Sexual Subject in Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
This essay explores the radical subjectivism of Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889/1921), which celebrates the creative potential of nonessentialist forms of identity and yet cautions against jettisoning humanist notions of selfhood entirely. I contend that Wilde turned to G. W. F. Hegel’s performative theory of lyric…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Unsettling the Normative: Articulations of Masculinity in Victorian Literature and Culture in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
This article provides an overview of the academic study of Victorian masculinity. It argues that the pioneering work of feminist and sexuality studies scholars in Victorian studies during the 1970s and 1980s made it possible to discuss manhood critically as a historical and cultural phenomenon. It then presents a reading of major works on…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Paterian Cosmopolitanism: Euphuism, Negativity, and Genre in Marius the Epicurean in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
In this essay, I argue that Walter Pater’s description of “Euphuism” in Marius the Epicurean (1885) relies upon the insights of idealist philosophy in order to articulate a theory of what Rebecca Walkowitz calls “cosmopolitan style.” Specifically, Pater draws upon a disparate number of cultural discourses in his articulation of Euphuism while…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited “Parents of the mind”: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Aesthetics of Productive Masculinity in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Although Mary Wollstonecraft’s analysis of masculine sexuality and sensibility in the Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1791) and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1797) mostly concerns the ways in which the oppression of women results in the unnatural encouragement and consequent perversion of male sexual desire, I believe that these two texts…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
Libertarias (1996) and Land and Freedom (1995) explore the complex situation
of women militia during the Spanish Civil War. A queer reading of the female
body in these films highlights wartime female masculinity (Halberstam) and
female solidarity. In renegotiating worn expectations of sexuality and gender,
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Rahul K Gairola deposited Digital hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
Please see abstract.
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett’s Natural History of Sexuality in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago
In this article I ask what happens if we consider Jewett, who spent most of her adult life at the epicenter of New England intellectual culture, as a pivotal figure in the Western history of theorizing sexuality, and her 1884 novel, A Country Doctor, as a significant document in the history of theorizing sexual and gender deviation, perfectly…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months ago
This class asks what sex looked and felt like before the instantiation of modern identity categories such as homosexuality or heterosexuality—before, that is, our desires became an index to our souls. To this end, we’ll examine texts by nineteenth-century American writers that represent the experiences and expressions of what we now call sex…[Read more]
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Travis M. Foster started the topic CFP: Stonewall at 50 (guaranteed session). MLA 2020, Seattle. in the discussion
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 4 years ago
Stonewall at 50: A Roundtable (guaranteed session)
Sponsored by the Sexuality Studies Forum
Approaches might include coalitions; activism; queer and trans of color critique; pride; shame; state violence; police brutality; mythologies; New York City; urbanism; gentrification; history; genealogies; nightlife; periodization; gay liberation; v…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This essay examines the circumstances of the production and appearance of East Germany’s first film about homosexuality (the short documentary “Die andere Liebe” or “The Other Love”), while considering the role it plays in our understanding of the development of German lesbian and gay history. More specifically, this essay provides a reading of…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 5 years ago
CFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Sarah E. Chinn deposited Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 5 years ago
This essay explores how the early American stage functioned as an incubator for ideas about national identity, artistic expression, and masculinity. Reading four plays from the early years of the Republic – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast, William Dunlap’s Andre´, John Augustus Stone’s Metamora, and Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator, I demonstrat…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
The deadline is approaching!
To participate in this year’s annual Stony Brook University English Graduate conference, please submit all abstracts to stonybrookenglishgradcon@gmail.com by December 18th, 2017.
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