Homofiles

Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies

Edited by Jes Battis - Contributions by Billy Clem; Brianne Colon; Marty Fink; Loren Krywanzcyk; Bradley Houston Lane; Em McAvan; Jennifer Mitchell; Marcos Moldes; C Riley Snorton and Nicholas Wright

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 relationships between 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.

Lexington Books

Pages: 172 • Trim: 6½ x 9½

978-0-7391-3191-6 • Hardback • September 2011 • $108.00 • (£83.00)

978-0-7391-3193-0 • eBook • December 2011 • $102.50 • (£79.00)

Subjects: Education / Student Life & Student Affairs, Literary Criticism / American / General, Literary Criticism / Books & Reading, Social Science / Gay Studies

Homofiles

Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies

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Summary

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 relationships between 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.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 172 • Trim: 6½ x 9½

978-0-7391-3191-6 • Hardback • September 2011 • $108.00 • (£83.00)

978-0-7391-3193-0 • eBook • December 2011 • $102.50 • (£79.00)

Subjects: Education / Student Life & Student Affairs, Literary Criticism / American / General, Literary Criticism / Books & Reading, Social Science / Gay Studies

Author

Jes Battis is assistant professor of English at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.

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

Reviews

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.
— Sarah E. Chinn, director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center at CUNY

Provocative, original, and moving. With this new book, Battis has assembled the next generation of scholars who are troubling the soul of queer studies.
— Kevin Kumashiro, author of The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right has Framed the Debate on America's Schools