[Commlist] Call for Chapter Proposals: Palgrave Handbook of Drag

Call for Chapter Proposals: Palgrave Handbook of Drag

Editors: Niall Brennan, Mayka Castellano and David Gudelunas

Popular and academic interest in drag has burgeoned since /RuPaul’s Drag 
Race/ first aired on US cable television in 2009. Despite rapid and 
recent growth of interest in drag within popular and academic landscapes 
due to /Drag Race/, performing gendered roles other than performers’ 
self-identified gender has existed for centuries, if only by virtue of 
women’s exclusion from the stage in many global historical and cultural 
contexts. Moreover, both within and beyond the US, drag is politically 
rooted in gay liberation movements, if only and more recently to have 
become absorbed by commercial mainstream and social media channels and 
platforms.

Most recently, drag artistry, culture and performance have taken center 
stage in current social-political debates, namely, but not only, in 
conservative swathes of the United States. From the gender-restricted 
history and contemporary landscape of drag, to the politically-mobilized 
and contested spaces of drag, to the ways that drag has become a global 
media commodity, we, the editors of the /Palgrave Handbook of Drag/ see 
a need to attempt to account for a comprehensive historical, political, 
economic, social, cultural and technological landscape of drag.

We invite interest in contributing to the /Palgrave Handbook of Drag/ 
from scholars, performers, activists and commentators of/on drag. Areas 
of considering the vast landscape of drag include, but are certainly not 
limited to:

* Celebrities/influencers and drag
* Drag and/in advertising and marketing
* Drag and alternative media
* Drag fashion and aesthetics
* Drag histories
* Drag kings
* Drag and labor
* Drag and localized identities
* Drag and mainstream media
* Drag and pedagogy
* Drag and sexualities
* Drag and sex work
* Drag and subjectivity
* Economies of drag
* Franchises and globalization of drag
* Institutions and institutionalization of drag
* Languages and lexicons of drag
* Media technologies and drag
* Misogyny and drag
* Politics and politicization of drag
* ‘Race’, ethnicity and drag
* Transgender drag
* Tutorial and DIY drag

To express interest in contributing to the /Palgrave Handbook of Drag/, 
please send a 250-word proposal that includes:

* Chapter title
* Scope/argument of chapter
* Full name, current affiliation and short biography

Timeline and further information:

* Proposals should be submitted by 1 September 2023 to 
(nbrennan /at/ fairfield.edu) <mailto:(nbrennan /at/ fairfield.edu)>, 
(dgudelunas /at/ ut.edu) <mailto:(dgudelunas /at/ ut.edu)> and 
(maykacastellano /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(maykacastellano /at/ gmail.com)>
* Decisions will be communicated by 1 October 2023
* Accepted chapters should be submitted by 15 November 2023
* Proposed year of publication is 2024

If you have any questions about the /Palgrave Handbook of Drag/ project, 
please email Niall Brennan at (nbrennan /at/ fairfield.edu) 
<mailto:(nbrennan /at/ fairfield.edu)>.

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