MLA Commons | TC Sexuality Studies | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/ Activity feed for the group, TC Sexuality Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a08bc0563ba2c56c3663cdc183a8043e William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936465/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:35:30 -0500 0 1892c7f56b398edf0c5c5e82806be2a9 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936464/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:32:29 -0500 0 4a8b5f0e60f64c44dbf32dd3d5ba371c Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878057/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:03:38 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c57c76ea880418d986defcbbb1c3db8 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870107/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:05:52 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 0bce8fc451c4907231247272fd58b7c3 Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/psychology-psychoanalysis-and-literature-panels-at-the-2024-mla-convention-2/#post-1036032 Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:36:56 -0500 Apologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:

194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti

Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level 4)

 

648 – Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis

Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Marriott – Franklin 2 (Level 4)

]]> 0 58882ae455d939e38e2ef0c33f207ee8 Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1838062/ Tue, 21 Mar 2023 03:52:28 -0400 This essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]

]]> 0 45c92095b538a14d555cb913fcf05a1f Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835409/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:54:33 -0500 This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]

]]> 0 51af33eee47030281c84f15a023e2978 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789161/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 03:54:35 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d93bac6d78908f21de1c97e219a33e10 Dustin Friedman deposited “Sinister Exile”: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Race in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769037/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:14:32 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9f839ed557f3fc1b1a27858bf0f64149 Dustin Friedman deposited Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1769033/ Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:05:46 -0500 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.

]]> 0 28be539064d38bac64cf8bc8b4365bbc 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746898/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 04:04:40 -0400 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]

]]> 0 22fa625dae4a7a9eb51a0040c56311bc Dustin Friedman deposited Unsettling the Normative: Articulations of Masculinity in Victorian Literature and Culture in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746894/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:53:25 -0400 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]

]]> 0 46e3c8a23b6a4b0fca8ab2e9bdb46444 Dustin Friedman deposited Paterian Cosmopolitanism: Euphuism, Negativity, and Genre in Marius the Epicurean in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746421/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:17:20 -0400 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]

]]> 0 79febc2caef46eb4ef321c66e3300ab5 Dustin Friedman deposited "Parents of the mind": Mary Wollstonecraft and the Aesthetics of Productive Masculinity in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1746411/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 04:06:06 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d22cb2305fd5f2b8dcbf31f6bc562361 Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Destabilizing Gender and Genre: Queering the Body in Libertarias and Land and Freedom in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1744958/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:25:45 -0400 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,
the films question and ultimately…[Read more]

]]> 0 71da0fb420e1c1842790d5c999fa6879 Rahul K Gairola deposited Digital hijras: Intersex/ tions of Postcolonial and Queer Digital Humanities in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1702100/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:28:54 -0400 Please see abstract.

]]> 0 8ae928264318954880317f842da32f3a Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663737/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:19:21 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fe9e45771429c71b367a7ecfd86a3111 Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663736/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:18:33 -0400 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]

]]> 0 acf6a8fe88c76dde37d7d7f24c1a8960 Travis M. Foster deposited Jewett's Natural History of Sexuality in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1658843/ Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:31:28 -0400 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]

]]> 0 39e5e849aaec6848c890929d9d4044f6 Travis M. Foster deposited Spring 2013 Graduate Seminar: Sex Before Sexology in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657658/ Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:36:04 -0400 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]

]]> 0 96f1f494a063b51bc923abb502b68143 Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez created the doc Call for Papers for 2020 MLA Convention in Seattle Working Group: Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQ Culture in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631706/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:00:40 -0500 0 ea544c3a10b08e2a01193f20189a3758 Travis M. Foster started the topic CFP: Stonewall at 50 (guaranteed session). MLA 2020, Seattle. in the discussion TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/cfp-stonewall-at-50-guaranteed-session-mla-2020-seattle/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:07:24 -0500 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]

]]> 0 866c4e5a72a2301c892457717f7150aa Kyle Frackman deposited Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609937/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 04:14:52 -0400 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]

]]> 0 7c396b4fbe7804cd3bd5098c372ac778 Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group TC Sexuality Studies: CFP MLA 2019 Textual Trans Actions: Queering […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599263/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:01:51 -0500 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]

]]> 0 e150c74e0a14013bc25e7854b49ea47f Sarah E. Chinn deposited Masculinity and National Identity on the Early American Stage in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596229/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:44:47 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9e0c98574f2fe0f7e348a4dc885a871d 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/cfp-literature-as-activism-stony-brook-university-english-graduate-conference-7/#post-1015834 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:36:57 -0500 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.

]]> 0 98b0efdd11653c99371956e6c013d0fc Octavio Gonzalez posted an update in the group TC Sexuality Studies: Hi Everyone, I'm Octavio (Tavi) Gonzalez, and I'm running […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588404/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:56:12 -0500 Hi Everyone, I’m Octavio (Tavi) Gonzalez, and I’m running for the Sexuality Studies Executive Committee election. I am assistant professor at Wellesley College, and have been a member of MLA since I was a graduate student. Last year, I presented on a panel on “Rethinking AIDS in the Age of Archival Publics,” where I presented on the Archives of…[Read more]

]]> 0 830bfd756cfec84da372b8994b67e21d Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group TC Sexuality Studies: Dear members of the Sexuality Studies group, for your […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586757/ Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:53:13 -0400 Dear members of the Sexuality Studies group, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.

Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebfcc5a024c2579f20cf5fb37a0d361d Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1585078/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:20:39 -0400 A B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a0b4f3d8937498407dce22b9fb0945f Merrill Cole posted an update in the group TC Sexuality Studies: Hi everyone, My name is Merrill Cole and I am running for a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1584817/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:08:48 -0400 Hi everyone,

My name is Merrill Cole and I am running for a seat on the executive committee of TC Sexuality Studies. I would like to introduce myself, my academic work, and my plans for the next few years. I am thrilled to have received the nomination, and I look forward to meeting more members of the group.

I have taught in the Department of…[Read more]

]]> 0 6edc354dba75abc82319ec8fb7eb199c Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Literature as Activism, Stony Brook University English Graduate Conference in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/cfp-literature-as-activism-stony-brook-university-english-graduate-conference-7/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:12:21 -0400 Stony Brook University
30th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 23rd, 2018
Literature as Activism
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Lisa Duggan, NYU
Literature is a social act. Our encounters with literature, history, philosophy, and even science are informed by the world in which these encounters take place. No matter what text we choose, we are…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9ed9a437abca74e231273d40b874298 Jorge Calderón started the topic CFP - L’art queer de la performance / Queer Art Performance in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/cfp-lart-queer-de-la-performance-queer-art-performance/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 08:02:44 -0400 L’art queer de la performance / Queer Art Performance

Colloque international

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

2, 3 et 4 mai 2018

Le rapport entre la théorie queer et les théories de la performance, du performatif et de la performativité a été marqué très fortement par la publication de Gender Trouble (1990) et de Bodies That Matter …[Read more]

]]> 0 27c3090e13bc7c1ba46fa50309ec89f8 David Squires deposited Pornography in the Library in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580153/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:19:18 -0400 In a book review of Story of O, part of which appeared on the cover of early paperback editions, Eliot Fremont-Smith wrote that its publication in 1965 marked “the end of any coherent restrictive application of the concept of pornography to books.” This essay explores the implications of that significant shift in censorship policy for lib…[Read more]

]]> 0 28378120469446b69b1b8276812b9513 David Squires deposited From Sensuous to Sexy: The Librarian in Post-Censorship Print Pornography in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580073/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:33:25 -0400 This chapter argues that the sexy librarian stereotype emerged at the end of the twentieth century from the confluence between sexual liberation, free speech movements and print pornography. It focuses on a series of librarian themed pornographic paperbacks published in the 1970s and 1980s by Greenleaf Classics. These stories, although flimsy…[Read more]

]]> 0 dcf0cc1b50b8534c5bf3b28696eb25e5 Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1578138/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 20:20:10 -0400 The book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9f24c0c84626a6628356b9c2f98364d André Carrington deposited Mike Brown's Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1577879/ Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:27:42 -0400 A contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.

]]> 0 d44858dcef00b31b62bafa3094112129 John Charles Hawley uploaded the file: CFP: Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction to TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1563691/ Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:46:46 -0500 How are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan, to Stories of Our Lives, African film has begun this conversation. From K. Sello Duiker, to Chinelo Okparanta and Diriye Osman, new voices have invited national debates on these top…[Read more]

]]> 0 c55f86efd5b191831d577f7d18aea414 Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/reminder-the-comics-of-alison-bechdel-12116-5/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:36:17 -0400 Just a reminder…

The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In

“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]

]]> 0 71cd525a9bebc90f48308b7bfeb9fcbd Jorge Calderón started the topic Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling International Conference University of Toronto, C in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/feeling-queer-queer-feeling-international-conference-university-of-toronto-c/ Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:44:22 -0400 Call for Papers

Feeling Queer / Queer Feeling

International Conference

University of Toronto, Canada

May 24–26, 2017

How can one begin to apprehend that which is not of the order of representation, that which cannot be communicated in any way whatsoever, and that which cannot be rendered immanent through literature, cinema, painting, or by a…[Read more]

]]> 0 33f458f2afba19a4e1fd65657b2dcb2d Julian Grajewski deposited bringing the war back home (to women) in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549390/ Sat, 23 Jul 2016 20:40:50 -0400 attempt to bring the horrors of the indo-china war to the most intimate part of women, 1967, xuan loc, rvn

]]> 0 69aa890d061e82f35abec5fc1cddd986 Alison Booth deposited Responsible Parties in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549202/ Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:39:00 -0400 For an MLA panel, January 2016, this talk recalls the 2014 crisis at the University of Virginia about an alleged fraternity gang rape, discusses the policy on sexual assault that designates “responsible employees,” and proposes measures: change drinking laws; avoid segregating any space by identity; offer responsible parties. Humanities professors…[Read more]

]]> 0 8990a35ab5fb09e9c1bea5aea4bf949c Stephen Guy-Bray started the topic workshops of Lyly's Galatea in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/workshops-of-lylys-galatea/ Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:07:58 -0400 <div class=””>We invite scholars to participate in exploring John Lyly’s <i class=””>Galatea at the Jerwood Space this August. The award-winning theatre maker Emma Frankland and Andy Kesson will be working with a company of performers, exploring the play’s representations of non-normative sexuality and its concluding investment in transge…[Read more]

]]> 0 41d7600ad02d5bf53fa90a530b32a594 Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/cfp-the-comics-of-alison-bechdel-edited-collection-12116-2/ Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:24:55 -0400 Of interest to members of the Sexuality Studies Group:

The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In

“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Aliso…[Read more]

]]> 0 695867e3c50622658f7a8a54b0c8ffb2 Laura Green deposited Hall of Mirrors: Radclyffe Hall's *The Well of Loneliness* and Modernist Fictions of Identity in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/547751/ Fri, 13 May 2016 13:09:42 -0400 Virginia Woolf’s well known distaste for the generic and aesthetic instability of Radclyffe Hall’s novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) finds echoes in more recent responses, even as the novel remains an anchor of a lesbian literary canon. I demonstrate that Hall’s novel does indeed exhibit generic and psychological instability, as a Victo…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c179126a2c3d2259899a1074c490295 Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/gender-and-sexuality-in-jewish-latin-american-cultural-production-3/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:15:34 -0400 The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.

Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e88b25512effdf370eb6fd4cb21e5e Sean Guynes deposited Fatal Attractions: AIDS and American Superhero Comics, 1988-1994 in the group TC Sexuality Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546779/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:20:04 -0400 Between 1988 and 1994 American comic books engaged the politics, problematics, and crises of the AIDS epidemic by injecting the virus and its social, cultural, and epidemiological effects on gay men into the four-color fantasies of the superhero genre. As the comic-book industry was undergoing major internal changes that allowed for more mature,…[Read more]

]]> 0 0566fc56da7bb908f5fc19dd252f076f Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-pre-stonewallpost-modern-2/ Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:53:01 -0500 MLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:

Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern

Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]

]]> 0 def4082146d83aa9bc43dc87776e7c7c Martha Nell Smith started the topic 3 CFPs for TC Sexuality Studies Forum MLA 2017!!! in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/3-cfps-for-tc-sexuality-studies-forum-mla-2017/ Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:38:42 -0500 Queer Hamilton

Forum: TC Sexuality Studies and GS Drama and Performance

Musical theatre, performance, Broadway, dance, history, cross-periodization, American Revolution, Founding Fathers, colonial, empire, race, ethnicity, Latina/o, African-American, hip-hop, sexuality, gender, Caribbean, immigration. 250 word abstracts, CVs by 15 February…[Read more]

]]> 0 a534f8457cdc87c5338a5a260f305dfe Christopher Looby started the topic 817. Is the Short Story Queer? in the discussion Gay Studies in Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sexuality-studies/forum/topic/817-is-the-short-story-queer/ Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:38:02 -0500 Abstracts, and the short stories that will be discussed, at Special Session (roundtable) 817, “Is the Short Story Queer,” have been posted to an MLA Commons site:

https://session817.mla.hcommons.org/

Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 10, 1:45-3:00 p.m., in 9B, Austin Convention Center.

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