Join Queer Intersections Oxford for an online conversation on sex, visual culture and queer intimacies.
Register to attend the webinar.
J. Logan Smilges (British Columbia), author of the new book Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence, will be in conversation with Jack Parlett (Oxford), author of The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr. The event will be moderated by Prof. Stephen Guy Bray (British Columbia).
Biographies:
J. Logan Smilges is an assistant professor of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia. Led by commitments to transfeminism and disability justice, they are a trans and disabled scholar whose research triangulates queer & trans disability studies, rhetorical studies, and the history of medicine. In addition to their book, Smilges’s writing can be found or is forthcoming in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, College Composition & Communication, Porn Studies, Rhetoric Review, Peitho, and elsewhere.
Jack Parlett recently held a Junior Research Fellowship in English at University College, Oxford. He is the author of two books: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr, published by the University of Minnesota Press, and Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise, published by Granta.
Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and is currently a Plumer Visiting Fellow in English at St Anne's College, Oxford. His previous books include Shakespeare and Queer Representation (2020), Against Reproduction (2009), Loving in Verse (2006), and Homoerotic Space (2002). His new book Line Endings in Renaissance Poetry considers the range of ways in which Renaissance poets ended their verse lines - from rhyme to enjambment - and argues that such endings are crucial to our understanding of their poems.
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Press.
There will be time for questions after the panel.
For further information, please contact Jack Parlett, jvjparlett@gmail.com.
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