Mapping Queer Space(s) of Praxis and Pedagogy
Edited by Joshua O. Lunn, James E. Wermers and Elizabeth McNeil
This book explores intersections of theory and practice to engage queer theory and education as it happens both in and beyond the university. Furthering work on queer pedagogy, this volume brings together educators and activists who explore how we see, write, read, experience, and, especially, teach through the fluid space of queerness. The editors and contributors are interested in how queer-identified and -influenced people create ideas, works, classrooms, and other spaces that vivify relational and (eco)systems thinking, thus challenging accepted hierarchies, binaries, and hegemonies that have long dominated pedagogy and praxis.
Bios
Elizabeth McNeil is an instructor of English in Arizona State University's College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, a faculty advisor for the Certificate in Environmental Humanities, and an affiliate faculty in women and gender studies and African and African-American studies. She earned an MFA in creative writing (1992) and a PhD in English (2003), both at ASU.
<p class="p1">James Wermers is the digital humanities course manager in the faculty of languages and cultures, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, and a faculty fellow in the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.
Praise for this book
...an inspiring, provocative invitation to the reader. ... [the collection] feels particularly relevant at a time when the conditions for education are changing while the threat of renewed discrimination of marginalized groups looms large. The essays ask us to rethink how intellectual concerns, institutional structures, and conventional practices have taken shape and how they can be overturned. The authors question, argue, theorize, and wonder about possibilities, their approaches all reflecting a desire to ... create more cognitive, interactive spaces for flexibility and inclusion.
Anna Fahraeus Director of Studies, Halmstad University
How do educators and practitioners see, think, write, and create ‘queer’ on a heteronormative slate? This edited collection offers a veritable map, synthesizing theory and practice, and ultimately demonstrating the destruction of heteronormative structures through pedagogy and praxis.
Natasha Mendoza Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
