The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the January 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers.

Queer theory embraces psychoanalysis and its speculative concepts as crucial elements of counter-identitarian critical practice. Yet the relationship between these two fields remains under-examined. Topics of particular interest include:

• Queer theory as an influence on psychoanalytic theory and/or clinical practice
• Contemporary and historical queer critiques of psychoanalysis, especially lesser-known and extra-canonical critiques
• Psychoanalytic eclecticism in queer theory; eclectic queer theorists such as the late Leo Bersani
• Historical and contemporary psychoanalytic homo- and transphobia

Submit 300-word abstracts and one-page CV to Dorothy Stringer (dorothy@temple.edu) by March 24, 2023.