2011 CFP: LGBTQ
See also under:
American: “Blowing Up America: Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre”
British and Anglophone: “Drag, Dress & Disguise in Eighteenth-Century Novels”
Spanish/Portuguese: “Body and the Politics of Resistance in the 21st century Latin American Narrative”; “Long Life Movida Madrileña!”
Theory and Literary Criticism: “Articulating the Human and its Others”; “Serial Narratives and Temporality”
Women’s and Gender Studies: “Advancing Gender Equality”
- LGBTQ Identities in Latin America
- This panel seeks to explore representations of LGBTQ literatures and identities in Latin America. For example, how do “sexual deviants” challenge ossified and monolithic notions of masculinity/femininity, national identities, and other hegemonic discourses? Is there a relationship between subversive sexuality and politics? Send a short abstract and brief biographical statements to Dr. Rick J. Santos at <santosr@ncc.edu). Use NeMLA-2011 in the heading.
- LGBTQ Studies and Pedagogy (Roundtable)
- This roundtable session will focus issues of pedagogy and LGBTQ Studies. We invite submission of proposals for 5-10-minute presentations on any issue relating to teaching LGBTQ literatures. For example, the inclusion LGBTQ literature in traditional settings, the relationship between LGBTQ theories/literatures and progressive politics, challenging/successful issues. Send proposals to Dr. Rick J. Santos at <santosr@ncc.edu>. Please, write PEDAGOGY PROPOSAL in the subject heading.
- Narrating Queer Histories (Roundtable)
- This roundtable invites a discussion of how our queer histories are narrated, documented, archived, and preserved. How does narrative encapsulate histories of queer identity, organizing, and survival? How do queer histories inform current conceptions of community, embodiment, and political practice? Topics might include: HIV/AIDS, transgender activism, prisoner rights, housing, employment, art, gender, women, police brutality, racism, borders, migration, and queer responses to popular culture. Please send abstracts to: martyfink@gmail.com
- Prove It On Me: Ambivalent Lesbian Representation in the Harlem Renaissance
- The Harlem Renaissance tried to fill absences in African-Americans’ group identity—humanity, art, masculinity, morality—by creating a respectable black middle class. Bourgeois imperatives complicated queer existence by enforcing heteronormativity. This panel explores representations, direct or ambivalent, of African-American lesbian desire and resistance in the arts and literature of the Harlem Renaissance and the contemporary queer renaissance. Please send 300-500 word abstracts to Phillip Zapkin, pzapkin@uvm.edu.
- Queer Counterpublic
- This panel welcomes papers on queer counterpublics including LGBTQ, drag, bdsm, fetish, butch/femme, polyamory, etc., in literature, film, and culture; the subversion of the hegemonic order of sex, sexuality, gender, desire, and bodies; alternative discursive, symbolic, imaginary, or literal locations for queer behaviors, bodies, and identities; and the role of consumer culture in the production of queer counterpublics. Submit to gsikorski@aacc.edu
- Queer Space(s) in the German-Speaking World
- This panel invites papers that deal with discourses of queer space in the German-speaking world, as well as representations of LGBT space(s) in German-language literature and visual culture. Papers might look at the sites of rural queerness; public and private tensions within queer space; virtual space; queer buildings, institutions, and monuments; and gay neighborhoods; those that look beyond Berlin are especially welcome. Send 200-300 word abstracts to Yvonne Ivory, University of South Carolina yivory@sc.edu .
- (Re)Imagining Expatriates: Queer Transnationalisms in American Literature
- Monique Truong’s recent novel linked Gertrude Stein’s internationalism with that of her Vietnamese cook Binh, underlining the crucial role transnationalisms have played in LGBTQ experience. How do various forms of border crossing, from James’s cosmopolitans to Lorde’s Caribbean immigrants, shape representations of sexuality in American literature? Papers on any historical period are welcome, as well as studies of queer expatriates, exiles, travelers, or immigrants. Send abstracts of 300-500 words to Paul Fisher at pfisher@wellesley.edu.
