Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies
Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. The contributors' essays address the various relationshipsbetween sexuality and scholarship within their respective programs, and present arguments on topics ranging from queer literature to police brutality. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intellectuals-in-training within the academy, and the contributors both analyze and challenge the structures of academia that they are working in as cultural critics.
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Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies
Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. The contributors' essays address the various relationshipsbetween sexuality and scholarship within their respective programs, and present arguments on topics ranging from queer literature to police brutality. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intellectuals-in-training within the academy, and the contributors both analyze and challenge the structures of academia that they are working in as cultural critics.
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Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies

Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies

Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies

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Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. The contributors' essays address the various relationshipsbetween sexuality and scholarship within their respective programs, and present arguments on topics ranging from queer literature to police brutality. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intellectuals-in-training within the academy, and the contributors both analyze and challenge the structures of academia that they are working in as cultural critics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739131930
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 12/14/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 172
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Jes Battis is assistant professor of English at the University of Regina

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Homofiles: Desire, Praxis, and Pedagogy Part 2 Part One Chapter 3 Chapter One: There Are Transsexuals in Our Middle Schools! Chapter 4 Chapter Two: "It Is about Geography and Memory": Coming to Voice with/in/out Academia Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence Chapter 6 Chapter Four: "A New Hope": The Psychic Life of Passing Part 7 Part Two Chapter 8 Chapter Five: Fuck/The Police: Queering Narratives of Police Brutality in Post 9-11 New York Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Read at Your Own Risk Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: Realizations about Connections: A Literacy/Teaching Narrative Part 11 Part Three Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Not Fab Enough: Consumer Gay Identity and the Politics of Representation Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: Don't Dream It, Be It: Cult(ure), Fetishism and Spectacle in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and King Lear Chapter 14 Chapter Ten: Suddenly Last Semester: What Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer Taught Me About Queer Dis-Ease Chapter 15 About the Contributors

What People are Saying About This

Sarah E. Chinn

In essays filled with personal insight and theoretical rigor, Homofiles introduces us to a new generation of queer graduate students. This book proves once again how much LGBT studies has to say not just about the unequal power relations endemic in academia, but the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and embodiment we grapple with daily.

Kevin Kumashiro

Provocative, original, and moving. With this new book, Battis has assembled the next generation of scholars who are troubling the soul of queer studies.

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