After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st Century

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After Queer Studies maps the literary influences that facilitated queer theory's academic emergence and charts the trajectories that continue to shape its continued evolution as a critical practice. It explores the interdisciplinary origins of queer studies and argues for the prominent role that literary studies has played in establishing the concepts, methods, and questions of contemporary queer theory. It shows how queer studies has had an impact on many trending concerns in literary studies, such as the affective turn, the question of the subject, and the significance of social categories like race, class, and sexual differences. Bridging between queer studies' legacies and its horizons, this collection initiates new discussion on the irreducible changes that queer studies has introduced in the concepts, methods, and modes of literary interpretation and cultural practices.

Tyler Bradway is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading (2017). He is the editor of 'Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing', a forthcoming special issue of College Literature, and his essays have appeared or are forthcoming in venues such as GLQ, Mosaic, Stanford Arcade, American Literature in Transition, 1980-1990 (Cambridge, 2018), and The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In (forthcoming). E. L. McCallum is Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University, and author of Unmaking The Making of Americans: Toward an Aesthetic Ontology (2018) and Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism (1999); she co-edited with Mikko Tuhkanen The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (Cambridge, 2014), and Queer Times, Queer Becomings (2011). Her essays have appeared in camera obscura, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Postmodern Culture, Poetics Today, and differences, as well as edited collections (including The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic (Cambridge, 2014), Primary Stein (2014), and Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond (2014). She recently won the Paul Varg Alumni Award for Faculty, recognizing outstanding teaching and scholarly achievement at Michigan State University.