[Englecturers] FW: Queer Pop Culture (11/30/05; collection)

[Steven Axelrod]

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Call for Essays
Project Title:  Queer Pop Culture


This anthology seeks to examine the rapidly changing representations of
glbtq culture in the popular media including television, film, literature,
and the Internet, and to provide a broad overview of current work in queer
studies. While queer visibility is increasing dramatically, the quality of
that visibility is questionable. Is any visibility better than no visibility
at all? What impact do emerging representations have on medical, political,
and legal discourses? What do histories of qltbg representations in film,
literature, and television tell us about our futures? How might
undergraduate and graduate students be more engaged in critical analysis of
queer subjectivity? In what ways do these representations perpetuate or
disrupt white-supremacist and heteronormative values? Who remains
under-represented or unrepresented? 

Queer Pop Culture will offer queer ways of reading current films, television
shows, books, and Web sites, in media where queer representation is marginal
or non-existent and where it is the focus. Scholars in Rhetoric and
Composition, Literature, Linguistics, Communication, Women's Studies,
Sociology, Popular Culture, and Media Studies are invited to submit
proposals by November 30. Notification of acceptance will be sent by
December 15. Final essays should be completed by February 15, 2006. Please
contact Tom Peele, tpeele at boisestate.edu, for additional information.

The anthology will be published by Palgrave-Macmillan during 2006 or 2007.




Tom Peele
Assistant Professor of English
Boise State University
Boise, ID 83725
(208) 426-3908

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