Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Mapping Queer Space(s)

   • The Editors

   Pages 1-17

3. Que(e)rying the Academy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Queer Acknowledgments

      • Branden Buehler, Roxanne Samer

      Pages 21-38

   3. Queer Settlers in a One-Room Schoolhouse: A Decolonial Queerscape Pedagogy

      • Garrett W. Nichols

      Pages 39-56

   4. Queering the First-Year Composition Student (and Teacher): A Democratizing Endeavor

      • Mark McBeth, Tara Pauliny

      Pages 57-69

   5. Queering the Campus Gender Landscape Through Visual Arts Praxis

      • Libby Balter Blume, Rosemary Weatherston

      Pages 71-103

   6. Safety in Numbers: On the Queerness of Quantification

      • Adam J. Greteman, Justin N. Thorpe

      Pages 105-123

4. Queer Out Here: Public Bodies and Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Out There: The Lesbian in Literature

      • Amy Gall

      Pages 127-140

   3. Work This Cunt Bucket: Knowledge, Love, and De-containment in Sapphire’s Push

      • Michael Angelo Tata

      Pages 141-168

   4. “Modern” Is as Modern Does: Modern Family and the Disruption of Gender Binaries

      • Bruce E. Drushel

      Pages 169-182

   5. Online Romeos and Gay-dia: Exploring Queer Spaces in Digital India

      • Rohit K. Dasgupta

      Pages 183-200

   6. Femme Is a Verb: An Alternative Reading of Femininity and Feminism

      • Sarah Murray

      Pages 201-214

5. Enspiriting, Living, Teaching Queer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Intersextionality: Embodied Knowledge, Bodies of Knowledge

      • Stacey Waite

      Pages 217-227

   3. Take a Left at the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Exploring the Queer Crossroads of Art, Religion, and Education Through Big Gay Church

      • Mindi Rhoades, Kimberly Cosier, James H. Sanders III, Courtnie Wolfgang, Melanie Davenport

      Pages 229-248

   4. Innovations in Sexual-Theological Activism: Queer Theology Meets Theatre of the Oppressed

      • Kerri A. Mesner

      Pages 249-267

   5. Queer Homes in a Non-Queer World

      • Katie Goldstein

      Pages 269-277

   6. Teaching Desire in Third Space: A Queer Prison Pedagogy for the Unknowing Spirit

      • Elizabeth McNeil, Joshua O. Lunn

      Pages 279-302

This book explores intersections of theory and practice to engage queer theory and education as it happens both in and beyond the university. Furthering work on queer pedagogy, this volume brings together educators and activists who explore how we see, write, read, experience, and, especially, teach through the fluid space of queerness. The editors and contributors are interested in how queer-identified and -influenced people create ideas, works, classrooms, and other spaces that vivify relational and (eco)systems thinking, thus challenging accepted hierarchies, binaries, and hegemonies that have long dominated pedagogy and praxis.

• theory and practice
• fluid space of queerness
• relational and (eco)systems thinking
• media studies
• transnational and postcolonial studies

“How do educators and practitioners see, think, write, and create ‘queer’ on a heteronormative slate? This edited collection offers a veritable map, synthesizing theory and practice, and ultimately demonstrating the destruction of heteronormative structures through pedagogy and praxis.” (Natasha Mendoza, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, USA)

“This collection is an inspiring, provocative invitation to the reader to join in fostering innovative and critical sensibilities inside and outside the classroom. It feels particularly relevant at a time when the conditions for education are changing while the threat of renewed discrimination of marginalized groups looms large. The essays ask us to rethink how intellectual concerns, institutional structures, and conventional practices have taken shape and how they can be overturned. The authors question, argue, theorize, and wonder about possibilities, their approaches all reflecting a desire to disrupt normative practices and create more cognitive and interactive spaces for flexibility and inclusion.” (Anna Fahraeus, Director of Studies, Department of English Literature and Language, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Halmstad University, Sweden)

• Languages and Cultures, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

  Elizabeth McNeil, James E. Wermers

• Snowflake, USA

  Joshua O. Lunn

Elizabeth McNeil is Instructor in Languages and Cultures at Arizona State University, USA.


James E. Wermers is Digital Humanities Course Manager for the College of Letters and Sciences at Arizona State University, USA, and doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, USA.



Joshua O. Lunn recently completed a fifteen-year sentence in an Arizona state prison. Noting the relationship between his crimes and patriarchal ideologies that encourage domination, oppression, and violence, he has explored ecofeminist and queer theory to examine delimiting ways of thinking and to effect positive change inside and outside of prison. 

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