Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy

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.

• 1. Introduction: Mapping Queer Space(s).- SECTION I: Que(e)rying the Academy.- 2. Queer Acknowledgments.- 3. Queer Settlers in a One-Room Schoolhouse: A Decolonial Queerscape Pedagogy.- 4. Queering the First-Year Composition Student (and Teacher): A Democratizing Endeavor.- 5. Queering the Campus Gender Landscape through Visual Arts Praxis.- 6. Safety in Numbers: On the Queerness of Quantification.- SECTION II: Queer Out Here: Public Bodies and Spaces.- 7. Out There: The Lesbian in Literature.- 8. Work This Cunt Bucket: Knowledge, Love, and De-containment in Sapphire’s Push.- 9.  Modern’ Is as Modern Does: Modern Family and the Disruption of Gender Binaries.- 10. Online Romeos and Gay-dia: Exploring Queer Spaces in Digital India.- 11. Femme Is a Verb: An Alternative Reading of Femininity and Feminism.- SECTION III: Enspiriting, Living, Teaching Queer.- 12. Intersextionality: Embodied Knowledge, Bodies of Knowledge.- 13. Take a Left at the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Exploring the Queer Crossroads of Art, Religion, and Education through Big Gay Church.- 14. Innovations in Sexual-Theological Activism: Queer Theology Meets Theatre of the Oppressed.- 15. Queer Homes in a Non-Queer World.- 16. Teaching Desire in Third Space: A Queer Prison Pedagogy for the Unknowing Spirit.- SECTION IV: AnimalQueer.- 17. The Bestiary of Friends.- 18. Animalqueer/Queeranimal: Scatterings.