[ecrea] CFP Transnational Queer Media and Popular Culture

CFP
Queer Media and Popular Culture
Editor: Ahmet Atay (College of Wooster/Bournemouth University)
Special Issue: Transnational Queer Media and Popular Culture
This special issue aims to take a transnational perspective in examining 
multiple texts and contexts in queer media and popular culture. The 
growing body of scholarship, the number of recently published academic 
books, and the creation of Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, 
this particular journal, suggest that queer popular culture is becoming 
a critical and fashionable popular area of academic inquiry (Benshoff & 
Griffin, 2005; Doty, 1993; Driver, 2007; Fojas, 2017; Mennel, 2012; 
Peele, 2016; Pullen, 2014). However, most of the published materials in 
queer studies, popular culture studies, and queer media take a 
Euro-American perspective and often feature American texts and popular 
culture artefacts. Furthermore, these materials are often written mostly 
by white and American scholars who work within the American popular 
culture paradigms and approaches. Hence, there is indeed a heavy 
presence of whiteness and an American-centric nature found within these 
queer, popular culture studies. Building on this critique, this special 
issue intends to fill the void in the scholarship by diversifying the 
popular culture contexts as well as by globalizing the materials being 
analyzed and the theoretical frameworks that are being used to study the 
selected texts and contexts.
Most of the existing scholarship in queer media and popular culture 
studies is U.S.-centric. Lately, however, several transnational and U.S. 
scholars have been examining the presence of homosexuality in global 
texts. For example, Dorothy Atuhura’s work regarding homophobia in 
Uganda is featured in /Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture/, 
1(2), and Luzmila Camacho Platero’s work on the representation of 
lesbians on Spanish television has been published in the same journal 
edition. Adding to the discussions stimulated by these works*, *this 
special issue continues the dialogue begun by various transnational 
scholars and builds on multiple conversations about the presence of 
queer imagery in the global media and in popular culture contexts 
(Champagne, 2015;Lema-Hincapié 
<https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Andr%C3%A9s+Lema-Hincapi%C3%A9&search-alias=books&field-author=Andr%C3%A9s+Lema-Hincapi%C3%A9&sort=relevancerank> & 
Castillo, 2016; Schoonover & Galt, 2016). Finally, this special issue 
aims to carry on the conversation regarding the transnationalization of 
queer media and of popular culture imagery and texts.
This special issue has several interrelated goals:
1-It aims to employ global and transnational perspectives to analyze 
queer media and popular culture texts and contexts. In doing so, it 
relocates these transnational perspectives from the peripheries and puts 
them in the center of the academic discourse. This way, scholars can not 
only examine transnational texts, but they can also use transnational 
queer or popular culture frameworks in their analysis.
2- This special issue acknowledges that popular culture texts are 
transnational and that they move easily around the globe due to new 
media technologies and the domination of U.S.-American distribution 
outlets around the world. Even though these queer texts might be 
produced in the U.S., they are consumed by millions of people in 
different parts of the world. In their consumption, these audiences 
often employ localized readings of these global, popular culture texts. 
Because of their differences in cultural practices, the degree of their 
acceptance of queer sexualities, and their sexualized identity 
performances, these audiences often consume these texts differently. 
This issue aims to focus on the ways in which different Euro-American, 
queer, popular texts are read and consumed by different audiences around 
the world. Hence, it aims to highlight the differences in queer readings 
due to differences in cultural contexts.
3- This special issue is committed to taking an intersectional 
perspective. Furthermore, it aims to highlight the diasporic, queer 
media as well as popular culture production and consumption by featuring 
texts that are created by diasporic artists, directors, writers, or 
producers. This issue calls attention to the hybrid nature of 
transnational, popular culture texts and contexts because of the global 
movements of images, ideas, and human bodies.
4- By employing transnational perspectives, this issue also aims to 
decolonize queer, popular culture studies by allowing transnational 
scholars into the dialogue.
5- This issue is thus committed to featuring queer, popular culture 
texts, artefacts, and performances that might not be readily available 
to the mainstream U.S. or British audiences. By showcasing these texts, 
as the editor of the issue, I hope to emphasize the differences in queer 
popular culture-making.
6- Finally, as a postcolonial, transnational, and queer media scholar, 
my goal is to highlight the intersections among these areas which are 
often bypassed, ignored, or dismissed in the mainstream academic 
scholarship. I hope this special issue will fill a gap in our 
scholarship by calling attention to the inclusion of transnational 
frameworks, texts, and scholars in queer popular culture scholarship.
Topics can include but are not limited to:
-Production of transnational queer media and popular culture
-Analysis of transnational queer media and popular culture
-Reception/interpretation of transnational queer media and popular 
culture by transnational queer audience
- Different ways of creating and analysing transnational queer media and 
popular culture artefacts
- New methodologies or theoretical frameworks to analyse transnational 
queer media and popular culture
- Diasporic queer media and popular culture
- Transnational queer media and popular culture artefacts as home
Abstracts are due by November 15, 2017, with a word length of no more 
than 500 words. Full- length manuscripts are due on April 1, 2018, with 
a word length of no more than 6,000 words including references, 
endnotes, and so forth. Abstracts should emailed as Word documents to 
 Ahmet Atay ((aatay /at/ wooster.edu)) for an initial review.



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