Queer Temporalities
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (SSHMA)
Organizer Name
Lisa M. C. Weston, Graham N. Drake
Organizer Affiliation
California State Univ.-Fresno, SUNY-Geneseo
Presider Name
Lisa M. C. Weston
Paper Title 1
Hanging and Lolling as Queer Temporal Pause in Piers Plowman
Presenter 1 Name
Micah Goodrich
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Connecticut
Paper Title 2
Asynchronous Anchoritic Love, Medieval/Modern/Modalities
Presenter 2 Name
Michelle M. Sauer
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of North Dakota
Start Date
12-5-2017 1:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 204
Description
Further elaboration of what has become known as “the temporal turn” in queer theory has proven how productive such approaches can be. But what of such queer temporal connections in the Middle Ages as well as in medievalisms and medieval studies ? For example, Carolyn Dinshaw’s "How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time" focuses on a range of desires and affinities between the present and the medieval past.
To address such questions, the proposed session will include research and criticism on medieval engagements with historicized pasts and imagined futures, including reconsiderations of spolia, medieval forgeries or “re-creations” of imagined pasts; apocalyptic fantasies; textual anachronisms; the flattening of time and/or the production of temporal depth in the treatment of sources; temporal gaps and/or overlaps; of poly-chronicity; and/or trans-temporal affinities of various kinds. More theoretical considerations of the involvement (medieval and/or modern) of sexuality with temporal mensuration and/or periodization are also invited.
Graham N. Drake
Queer Temporalities
Bernhard 204
Further elaboration of what has become known as “the temporal turn” in queer theory has proven how productive such approaches can be. But what of such queer temporal connections in the Middle Ages as well as in medievalisms and medieval studies ? For example, Carolyn Dinshaw’s "How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time" focuses on a range of desires and affinities between the present and the medieval past.
To address such questions, the proposed session will include research and criticism on medieval engagements with historicized pasts and imagined futures, including reconsiderations of spolia, medieval forgeries or “re-creations” of imagined pasts; apocalyptic fantasies; textual anachronisms; the flattening of time and/or the production of temporal depth in the treatment of sources; temporal gaps and/or overlaps; of poly-chronicity; and/or trans-temporal affinities of various kinds. More theoretical considerations of the involvement (medieval and/or modern) of sexuality with temporal mensuration and/or periodization are also invited.
Graham N. Drake