This call for papers is for a proposed panel session to be held at "(dis)junctions: Romancing Heteroglossia"at the University of California Riverside's 11th Annual Humanities Conference. This graduate student conference will be held April 9-10, 2004.
Panel Topic: "Bi This: Bisexuality in Literature and Film"
This panel will address the discourse surrounding bisexuality in literature, film, and contemporary culture. Bisexuality has long been positioned precariously between the "straight" and "queer" communities. As a result, bisexuality has very specific concerns which are manifested in literature and film. Papers might wish to address these issues which also include, but are certainly not limited to, the following: negotiating the queer community, visibility/invisibilty, the gay versus straight binary, notions of fluidity and stablity, as well as the limitations that gender places on sexuality and vice versa.
Some specific issues to consider:
Literary figures/characters from different periods
Media portrayal (or lack thereof)
The bisexual in popular "queer" shows such as Queer As Folk, Will and Grace, etc.
The threat of the bisexual
The help/hinderence of bisexual celebrities
Position of bisexuality within queer theory itself
The threesome
Bisexuality's Interaction with Race, Class, Gender, or Marriage
Gendered double standard of bisexuality (the cultural acceptibity of bisexual women versus bisexual men?)
One page abstracts should be submitted by March 08. Please send to Megan Fowler at pre-raphaelite@earthlink.net
For more information on the conference, visit http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/
Megan Fowler
Dept. of English
UC Riverside
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