Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class

Maria Alexopoulos teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she researches queer and feminist theory and the politics and representation of feminine adolescence.Tomasz Basiuk is Professor of American Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, whose current focus is on queer studies.Susanne Hochreiter is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, whose current focus is on gender and queer studies.Tijana Ristic Kern works at the Department of English and American Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, where she researches aesthetics and politics of queer hybrid life writing in twentieth-century British and American writing.

• Introduction 1. “and they would scream Revolution!”: Radical lesbian class action in 1970s feminist manifestos and Michelle Tea’s Valencia 2. “Contact – however brief – outside the prison of my class is what I still desire.” Interclass sexual contact in personal essays by Bruce Benderson and Samuel R. Delany 3. Empowering Aesthetics: Queer Temporalities and Precarious Existence in Isabel Waidner’s Novels 4. About Worlds and Words: Habitus and Precariousness in Annie Ernaux’s A Woman’s Story 5. Happy Little People: Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Hans Fallada’s Kleiner Mann – was nun? and Kristine Bilkau’s Die Glücklichen 6. Queering Dark Academia 7. Roundtable: Queer and Class in Theory and (Academic) Practice