The Center for Gender Studies of the Institute of English Studies is happy to invite the students and the staff of the University of Wrocław to a guest lecture by Dr. Allison E. Carey, Marshall University, to be held on Thursday, 18 May 2023 at 3.30 PM. Title: “Photography and the Heteronormative Family in LGBTQ Appalachian Literature: Artifice and Epistemology in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.“The lecture will take place at the Institute of English Studies, (ul. Kuźnicza 21-22) in room 207.
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Allison E. Carey is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Marshall University. Her new book explores LGBTQ themes in literature, graphic memoirs and films by contemporary Appalachians authors. She is the author of Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in Appalachia. It is “The first book of its kind, Doubly Erased is a comprehensive study of the rich tradition of LGBTQ themes and characters in Appalachian novels, memoirs, poetry, drama, and film. Appalachia has long been seen as homogenous and tradition-bound. Allison E. Carey helps to remedy this misunderstanding, arguing that it has led to LGBTQ Appalachian authors being doubly erased—routinely overlooked both within United States literature because they are Appalachian and within the Appalachian literary tradition because they are queer. In exploring motifs of visibility, silence, storytelling, home, food, and more, Carey brings the full significance and range of LGBTQ Appalachian literature into relief.”
https://sunypress.edu/Books/D/Doubly-Erased
“Doubly Erased contributes significantly to Appalachian literary scholarship by providing close, well-framed analyses of LGBTQ authors’ works. Carey clearly articulates the complexity of the region and its inhabitants, eschewing essentialization of the people and reductive caricatures. I foresee this book having a profound positive impact not only for the Appalachian LGBTQ community but also for the Appalachian community writ large, however one defines that.” — Theresa L. Burriss, coeditor of Appalachia in the Classroom: Teaching the Region”).
https://sunypress.edu/Books/D/Doubly-Erased
Sources: Bionote and photograph: https://www.marshall.edu/english/eng-directory/allison-carey/
