Homofiles
Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies
Contributions by Billy Clem, Brianne Colon, Marty Fink, Loren Krywanzcyk, Bradley Houston Lane, Em McAvan, Jennifer Mitchell, Marcos Moldes, C Riley Snorton, Nicholas Wright Edited by Jes Battis
Publication date:
09 September 2011Length of book:
172 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
242x161mm6x10"
ISBN-13: 9780739131916
Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, collects the work of gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students who are pursuing studies across the humanities. The contributors' essays address the various relationships between sexuality and scholarship within their respective programs, and present arguments on topics ranging from queer literature to police brutality. This is the first anthology to specifically explore the role of queer and transgender intellectuals-in-training within the academy, and the contributors both analyze and challenge the structures of academia that they are working in as cultural critics.
In essays filled with personal insight and theoretical rigor, Homofiles introduces us to a new generation of queer graduate students. This book proves once again how much LGBT studies has to say not just about the unequal power relations endemic in academia, but the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and embodiment we grapple with daily.