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ALT QUEER POETICS ON THE EARLY MODERN STAGE (RSA 2024) The study of early modern dramaturgy and performance culture has long been a fertile ground for exploring the complexities of human experiences and the interrogation of societal norms. In recent years, scholars have explored the representation of gender, sexuality, and queer desire in Renaissance drama in Italy and beyond—with influential such as Laura Giannetti’s Lelia’s Kiss: Imagining Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy (2009), Valeria Finucci’s The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (2004), and, more recently, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row’s Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage (2022). This session aims to bring together scholars interested in the representation of queer desire and the crossing of heteronormative boundaries in early modern drama and performance culture. We invite papers exploring how queer representation challenges or resh
ALT Topics may include, but are not limited to: - homoerotic desire - cross-dressing on stage - queerness as disruption of societal hierarchies - queer space and temporalities - the intersection of queerness with race, class, religion, and ability - audiences’ responses to non-normativity Submission Guidelines: Please submit your full name, current affiliation, email address, paper title (15 words maximum), abstract (300-word maximum), Ph.D. completion date (past or expected), keywords, and a 1-page CV to the organizers, Laura Ingallinella (Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, University of Toronto: [email protected]) and Garrett Waters (Assistant Teaching Professor of French and Italian, Emory University ([email protected]). Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Link to the CFP
ALT Black and white photo of two standing men and a dog perched on a chair. The dog is white and medium-sized, detail is unclear. A white man stands next to the chair. He has short hair and wears a large coat and wide-legged trousers. To his right is a Black man wearing a suit.
ALT QUEER POETICS ON THE EARLY MODERN STAGE (RSA 2024) The study of early modern dramaturgy and performance culture has long been a fertile ground for exploring the complexities of human experiences and the interrogation of societal norms. In recent years, scholars have explored the representation of gender, sexuality, and queer desire in Renaissance drama in Italy and beyond—with influential such as Laura Giannetti’s Lelia’s Kiss: Imagining Gender, Sex, and Marriage in Italian Renaissance Comedy (2009), Valeria Finucci’s The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (2004), and, more recently, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row’s Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage (2022). This session aims to bring together scholars interested in the representation of queer desire and the crossing of heteronormative boundaries in early modern drama and performance culture. We invite papers exploring how queer representation challenges or resh
ALT Topics may include, but are not limited to: - homoerotic desire - cross-dressing on stage - queerness as disruption of societal hierarchies - queer space and temporalities - the intersection of queerness with race, class, religion, and ability - audiences’ responses to non-normativity Submission Guidelines: Please submit your full name, current affiliation, email address, paper title (15 words maximum), abstract (300-word maximum), Ph.D. completion date (past or expected), keywords, and a 1-page CV to the organizers, Laura Ingallinella (Assistant Professor of Italian Studies, University of Toronto: [email protected]) and Garrett Waters (Assistant Teaching Professor of French and Italian, Emory University ([email protected]). Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Link to the CFP
