Orientations

Amy E. Elkins

Contributors

Queer “Orientations” as Counterblast Manifesto

Amy E. Elkins

When Alice Oswald delivered her final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2023, she (once again) made new the modernist manifesto. Counterblast! (a manifesto for poetry) launches the futurists on a rocket ship back to Homer via...

Queer Enough

Lauren M. Rosenblum

As Janine Utell writes of her experience in the opening post of this forum, reader reports can helpfully push our work forward towards publication. But she also points out that they can (perhaps unintentionally) dismantle our attempts to draw...

“Ruthless Personalizers”: Queer Theory and the Uses of The Personal

Jess Shollenberger

Personal writing is having a moment. The recent attention to autotheory has enlivened longstanding debates about the politics of the personal as a critical scholarly mode, opening out new lines of inquiry into genre, method, and argument...

Bullied Young Women, Virginia Woolf’s Sex Japes, and Modernist Sociability in the Time of #MeToo

Andrea Zemgulys

Over the last decade, #MeToo and the work of activists like Tarana Burke have brought attention to tacitly permitted sexual exploitation on university campuses and in work environments both on and off the clock. As #MeToo transformed the world...

Fitzi’s Dog: Lost Auto/biographical Presence in Nightwood

Catherine W. Hollis

Archival research in the 1990s involved #2 pencils and handwritten transcriptions, later painstakingly typed into a desktop computer. The archival research I undertook then as a grad student was a labor of love, a “passion project” in the spirit...

Miss Lowell Regrets

Melissa Bradshaw

Amy Lowell is tired. “This is a work, this poetry,” she writes Harriet Monroe in March of 1922, finalizing the poems she’ll have included in the 1922 version of Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson’s The New Poetry anthology. Lowell had...

Orienting to the Private: The Spatial Dreamworlds of Black Becoming

Zoë Henry

In overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has rejected the notion that Americans have a constitutional right to privacy, opening the door to states’ policing of the bodies of women and others who can become pregnant. While it has been widely...

Epistemology of the What?: Queer Anachronisms in the Modernist Classroom

Elizabeth Blake

In 1990, when Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick declared the closet “the defining structure for gay oppression in this century,” she followed that claim with a reference to the legal discourses of privacy, specifically those concentrated around the 1986 case...

Notes on Bristling

Erica Gene Delsandro

Bristling . I don’t use this word much, and I definitely do not see it on the page often. Maybe that is why it stood out to me when Carrie Rohman (whose post you can read here) employed it in her keynote at the Annual International...

Woolf, the University, and All Sorts of Brutality

Carrie Rohman

Erica Delsandro’s galvanizing post about the possibilities and limitations of collective feminist bristling helps signal to us all just how much work, and how much care-ful work, needs to be done around issues of gendered disadvantage,...

“Orientations”: A Provocation, A Welcome, An Invitation

Janine Utell

When I was in the process of proposing and developing the volume that became Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English , one of my peer reviewers noted an orientation towards the celebratory, a somewhat uncritical extolling of the...

Orientations

Nov 30, 2021 By: Amy E. Elkins

Volume 6, Cycle 3

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queerness

feminism

A space for reorienting ourselves as scholars, teachers, writers, and practitioners of interdisciplinary modernist studies to the feminist, to the queer—and also a space for sustained orientation to feminist and queer modernisms.