This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little Review, The Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer/non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism. What material products of queer literary partnerships can we trace in the publication history of a particular piece; the intersecting, shifting alliances between different presses and authors; or the publication of work resulting from intimate or subcultural relationships? Alternatively, what queer(ed) textual disruptions, short-lived print productions, or unpublished works deserve our reconsideration? Presentations working both in and outside of traditional definitions of modernist literature, especially those dealing with overlooked or underexamined works/figures, will be welcomed and appreciated.   

Please submit 250-word abstract and a short bio or CV to yatess931@gmail.com by March 29, 2025