Standing Session

Gender and Sexuality / Genres and Audiences

James Rawn (University of California - Irvine)
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The "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" session explores topics such as memory, identity, representation, or intersectionality pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature, media, or culture. Papers may, but need not, engage in the conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.”

The "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies" session invites submissions that discuss memory, identity, representation, or intersectionality pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer literature, media, or culture. You may, should you wish, engage in the conference theme of “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” but any topic on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer literature or culture is welcome.

Some topics of particular interest this year include:

• The homoerotic gaze in media

• Power and culture relating to gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer stories/histories

• Queer-coded representation in art or literature

• Censorship, oppression, and erasure facing transgender, gay, and queer people

• Transgender, gay, queer responses to political and ideological oppression

• The discourse of intersectionality within LGBTQ+ content