Call for Panelists -  2017 Narrative Conference

March 23-26, 2017, Lexington, KY

The University of Kentucky will host the Narrative Conference in Lexington, KY from March 23-26, 2017. Keynote speakers include Judith Butler, Kenneth Warren, and Linda Williams.

We seek two panelists to join a panel entitled “Narratives of Queer Resistance.” 

We invite prospective panelists to respond to the following question: What happens when “queer” is no longer queer? The current panelists invite scholars working within queer literary criticism, current debates on anti/normativity, and textual analysis in the 20th and 21st century to answer this question. As anti-normative impulses grow increasingly “normative” within queer theory, how do queer theorists continue to resist?

Two papers serve as the foundation for this panel.

The first interrogates Mina Loy’s “Feminist Manifesto”(1914) and a 2013 revisionist art piece that resists the propensity for queer literature to become incorporated into the normative as its relative queerness fades.

The second paper turns to the archive of black women creatives to reconcile the space between queer antinormative and normative narratives, and considers how artwork by Kara Walker and literature by ZZ Packer works within normativity, resists normativity, and ultimately alters normativity.

We seek abstracts up to 150 words (including your name and the title of submission) and a brief statement about your professional works and publications (up to 100 words). Please submit abstracts to Claire Lenviel at claire.lenviel@uky.edu by October 1st. Notice will be given in the first week of October. The panel will be submitted for consideration on October 15 in accordance with the CFP; acceptance to the Narrative Conference is contingent on the panel’s acceptance.