> Autobiography and Sexuality. Contributions are invited for a collection
> of essays, tentatively titled Big Sex, that explores how academic
> institutions as the big Other(s) shape and/or influence our sexual
> identity and practices. Essays should be situated at the intersection of
> autobiographical narrative and theoretical discourse; that is, they
> should not simply document a personal experience or history but reflect
> upon it in relation to the discourses or symptomatics of academic
> institutions (grade school, high school, graduate school, libraries,
> etc.) and spaces. Possible topics might include but are certainly not
> limited to the following: with(in) what mechanism(s) one operates as a
> sexual being in and for the classroom, in and for the academy at large,
> in and for one's scholarship (repression? exhibitionism? voyeurism?
> hysteria? masquerade? etc.); sex-text trouble or censorship in the
> classroom; pleasures of the text or the erotics of reading and/or
> writing; the beating phantasy (a la Freud's "A Child is Being Beaten);
> the academy as sexually oppressive and/or liberating; fetishizing texts,
> discourses, teachers; classroom sex-trauma/sex-drama; who and/or what is
> considered "sexy" by and in the academy; break-ups caused by and/or
> relationships created by one's participation in the academy; what
> academics talk about when they talk about sex; sexual awakening(s),
> conflict(s), performance(s), play(s), reckoning(s), tension(s) that
> emerge in response to various theoretical, pedagogical, and/or political
> stances. Send completed essays (20-30 pages in length, MLA style) by
> April 30, 2001, to Becky McLaughlin, Department of English, University of
> South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688. Please do not send e-mail attachments.
> E-mail queries, however, are welcome (bmclaugh@jaguar1.usouthal.edu).
>
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