CONGRESS CANCELED Romance and the Animal Turn II: Romance and Queer Ecology

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

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Over the past decade, queer theory and animal studies have been brought into conversation in groundbreaking works such as Queering the Non/Human (2008) and Queer Ecologies (2010), and the special issue ‘Tranimalities’ of TSQ (2015). Scholars of medieval literature have been trailblazers of new methods of queer ecological criticism. This session explores representations of sexuality and queer identity in relation to discourses of animals and nature in romance texts. Tim Wingard

This paper has been withdrawn.
 
May 9th, 1:30 PM

CONGRESS CANCELED Romance and the Animal Turn II: Romance and Queer Ecology

Schneider 1340

Over the past decade, queer theory and animal studies have been brought into conversation in groundbreaking works such as Queering the Non/Human (2008) and Queer Ecologies (2010), and the special issue ‘Tranimalities’ of TSQ (2015). Scholars of medieval literature have been trailblazers of new methods of queer ecological criticism. This session explores representations of sexuality and queer identity in relation to discourses of animals and nature in romance texts. Tim Wingard