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Laramie 2.0: Journey Of A Queer Professor, Eric D. Teman J.D., Ph.D.
Laramie 2.0: Journey Of A Queer Professor, Eric D. Teman J.D., Ph.D.
Eric D Teman, J.D., Ph.D.
Through autoethnographic poetry, I take the reader on a journey through my experience of moving to Laramie, Wyoming, to become faculty at the University of Wyoming. As a gay male who is still haunted by the 1998 brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, I engage in storytelling: relaying my personal experiences of living in modern-day Laramie, showing the reader my fears, obstacles, and revelations through prose.
Broom Closet Or Fish Bowl? An Ethnographic Exploration Of A University Queer Center And Oneself, Eric D. Teman Ph.D., Maria K. Lahman Ph.D.
Broom Closet Or Fish Bowl? An Ethnographic Exploration Of A University Queer Center And Oneself, Eric D. Teman Ph.D., Maria K. Lahman Ph.D.
Eric D Teman, J.D., Ph.D.
The authors detail an educational ethnography of a university queer cultural center’s role on campus and in the surrounding community. The data include participant observation, in-depth interviews, and artifacts. The authors review lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ally, and questioning (LGBTAQ) issues in higher education, heterosexual attitudes, and queer theory. The findings of barriers to the Center’s mission plus the suicide of a Center student prompted the authors to explore research poetry as a means to express the inexpressible. Furthermore, they illustrate tensions between contemporary queer and gay theories through the telling of a straight tale (traditional research report) and a …
Influence, Anxiety, And Erasure In Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt
Influence, Anxiety, And Erasure In Women's Writing: Romantic Becomes Victorian.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt
Stephen C Behrendt
This essay examines how poetic memorials by women writers written over the multiple generations of the Romantic period often seek to establish and sustain the individual writer's presence and authority as much as they aim to memorialize the memory of a lost forebear.