MSA Boston 2025: Queer Print Infrastructures in Literary Modernism (Modernist Studies Association Conference)
This panel invites papers addressing the formative roles played by the queer print infrastructures that established, defined, and perpetuated literary modernism. Via the material production systems of independent magazines, small-run presses, special edition printings, and specialist bookstores (including Shakespeare & Co., The Little Review, The Egoist, Hogarth Press, Fire!!, etc, etc) queer and non-normative people had a remarkable shaping effect on the material productions and aesthetic coherences/incoherences of commercial and ‘high’ modernism. What material products of queer literary partnerships can we trace in: the publication history of a particular piece; the intersecting, shifting alliances between different presses and authors; or the publication of work resulting from intimate or subcultural relationships? Alternatively, what queer(ed) textual disruptions, short-lived print productions, or failed attempts at publication deserve our reconsideration? Presentations working both in and outside of traditional definitions of modernist literature, especially those dealing with underexamined works or figures, will be welcomed and appreciated.
Please submite 250-word abstract and CV to yatess931@gmail.com by March 15, 2025
Sophie Yates