gender studies and sexuality

Gendered representations of writers appear in all forms of popular culture, from George Gissing’s Grub Street (1898) and Edith Wharton’s Hudson River Bracketed (1929) to David Duchovney’s character in the Showtime series Californication and Melissa McCarthy’s in CBS’s Mike and Molly. Although they each portray aspects of the writing life that were characteristic of their eras, one thing they have in common (besides the fact that a writer wrote them) is that they all exhibit some kind of peculiarity, be it sex addiction, writer’s block, delusions of grandeur, fevered brilliance, etc., that either adds to or detracts from their writing.

In her 2016 book, Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway suggests that the way beyond the anthropocene and capitalocene is “making oddkin” which is “always situated, someplace and not noplace, entangled and worldly.” For this panel we seek readings that explore the relationship (or kinship) between subject and object, body and environment, the self and the landscape. Posthuman ecology and new materialism may collide in texts that blur the self and her environment (both natural and social).  This phenomenon may particularly manifest in texts where human subjects occupy Othered identity positions, such as women, non-white, and immigrant subjects who inscribe how their environments mark their bodies and their lives.

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Research and Criticismisa peer-reviewed, refereed research journal published by the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Founded in 1965, the journal is published annually. Over the years, it has contributed significantly in the field of English Literature, New Literatures in English, Comparative literature, and World and Indian Writing in English.

The Vol. 8, 2017 (New Series) of Research and Criticism is slated to be a general issue, for which original, unpublished, critical and scholarly research articles are invited related to any aspect of literary and cultural studies.  

Reworking Labor: 2017 Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference deadline for submissions: June 30, 2017 full name / name of organization: Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference contact email: tuftsgradhumanitiesconference@gmail.com 

Reworking Labor

2017 Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference

Conference Date: October 20, 2017

Keynote Speaker: Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research

Milieux of Desire

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Peer-reviewed journal La Deleuziana

Editors: Jeanne Etelain, New York University; Anaïs Nony, Florida State University