Society for the Study of Southern Literature

2024 Biannual Conference

June 23-26, 2024

Courtyard by Marriot Beachfront | Gulfport, Mississippi

There is a need to reconceptualize queer Souths in the face of the challenges and revocation of rights that the community has faced in the last seven years. While there is certainly an existing body of scholarship on queer Souths, those works tend to focus on specific sites or individuals rather than examining the activism and art that connect to build a genealogy of queer Souths.

This panel welcomes proposals that include but are not limited to:

• Contemporary queer southern literatures, film, and television
• Expressions of queer southern optimism and pessimism
• Queer southern social media
• Queer southern futurities
• Representations of a queer post-Trump South
• Southern queer resilience

Submit proposals of 250 words and brief bios of 100 words to Allison Rittmayer, rittmayera@nsula.edu, and Khirsten Doolan, doolank@nsula.edu, by February 8, 2024.