One of the greatest strengths of Queer@King’s is the exceptional breadth of work undertaken by our members, which covers an enormous range of different media, cultures, periods, methods, and contexts – from modern lesbian cinema to secular and devotional eros in late medieval writing, from transnational Chinese queer stardom to the legacies of ancient literature and thought in modern notions of sex, from the pornographic paratexts of Pornhub to the erotics and politics of love in ancient world literature.

To get a sense of the range of our research, browse this year-by-year list of selected publications on queer topics by past and current Queer@King’s members:

2018

Moore, M. (2018). Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric. Yale University Press.

Udy, D. J. W. (2018). 'Am I gonna become famous when I get my boobs done?': Surgery and Celebrity in "Gigi Gorgeous: This is Everything". TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.

2017

Bradbury-Rance, C. (2017). Lucy Nicholas, Queer post-gender ethics: The shape of selves to come. Feminist Theory, 18(1), 89-90. DOI: 10.1177/1464700116683658

Bradbury-Rance, C. (2017). The Translation of Desire: Queering Visibility in Nathalie… and Chloe. In B. J. Epstein, & R. Gillett (Eds.), Queer in Translation (pp. 144-55). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781315603216

Chan, & A. Willis (Eds.), Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives (pp. 119-134). London: Routledge.

Gallagher, R., & Brown, A. M. L. (2017). Gaming and Sex. In Sex in the Digital Age (pp. 191-200). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Li, E. C. Y. (2017). Desiring Queer, Negotiating Normal: Denise Ho (HOCC) Fandom before and after the Coming-Out. In M. Lavin, L. Yang, & J. J. Zhao (Eds.), Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (pp. 131-156). Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press.

Matzner, S. (2017). Looking for Love, Finding Trouble—Reading Ancient World Literature, Passionately: (Bridge Essay: The Erotics and Politics of Love). In K. Seigneurie (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature (Vol. 1). WILEY-BLACKWELL.

Newell, P. A. (2017). ‘Coming Out: 50 years of gay literature,’ The London School of Economics Literary Festival 2017. TLS: the Times literary supplement

Salih, M. S. A. L. (2017). Performances of Suffering: Secular and Devotional Eros in Late Medieval Writing. In B. Mudge (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature (pp. 34-46). (Cambridge Companions). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Scharff, C. M. Gill , R., Kelan , & E. K. (2017). A Postfeminist Sensibility at Work. Gender, Work and Organization, 24(3), 226-244. DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12132

Udy, D. J. W. (2017). Diva Las Vegas: Queering Space in the Entertainment Capital of the World. GENDER PLACE AND CULTURE, 24(2). DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1314946

2016

Berry, C. (2016). Women Characters, Women’s Cinema and Neo-liberal Modernity: Doubled and Split. In F.

Bradbury-Rance, C. (2016). Desire, Outcast: Locating Queer Adolescence. In F. Handyside, & K. Taylor-Jones (Eds.), International Cinema and the Girl (pp. 85-95). Palgrave Macmillan UK. DOI: 10.1057/9781137388926_7

Fan, H. L. V. (2016). Free-Indirect-Discourse Reboot: Beijing Queer Independent Cinema as a Mediating Environment. Reconstruction, 16(2).

Fan, H. L. V. (2016). Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema by Jean Ma. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.

Gowing, L. (2016). Girls on forms: Apprenticing young women in seventeenth-century London. Journal of British Studies, 55(3), 447-473. DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2016.54

Howard, J. (2016). Digital Queer History and the Limits of Gay Sex. In M. L. Gray, B. J. Gilley, & C. R. Johnson (Eds.), Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies (Intersections). New York: New York University Press.

Matzner, S. (2016). Queer Unhistoricism: Scholars, Metalepsis, and Interventions of the Unruly Past. In S. Butler (Ed.), Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception (pp. 179-201). Bloomsbury Academic.

Saunders, R. (2016). 'Open Wide and Say 'Aah': The Body and the Medical Authority of Pornograpjy. In H. Brunskell-Evans (Ed.), Performing Sexual Liberation: The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Scharff, C. (2016). Better to be sick than angry: young women as ideal neoliberal subjects. In S. Springer, J. Macleavy, & K. Birch (Eds.), The handbook of neoliberalism Routledge.

Scharff, C. Lemos De Carvalho Elias, A. S., & Gill, R. (2016). Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking beauty politics in neoliberalism. Palgrave Macmillan.

Scharff, C., Şahin, R., Smith-Prei, C., & Stehle, M. (2016). Riot Grrrls, Bitchsm, and pussy power: interview with Reyhan Şahin/Lady Bitch Ray. Feminist Media Studies, 16(1), 117-127. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2015.1093136

Scharff, C., Smith-Prei , C., & Stehle, M. (2016). Digital Feminisms: Transnational Activism in German Protest Cultures. Feminist Media Studies, 16(1). DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2015.1093069

Udy, D. J. W. (2016). Secrets, Lies, and The Real Housewives: The Death of an (Un)Popular Genre. In M. Luethe, & S. Pohlmann (Eds.), Unpopular Culture Amsterdam University Press.

Wintemute, R. W. (2016). European Law Against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation. In Same-sex relationships and beyond: Gender matters in the EU Intersentia.

Wintemute, R. (2016). Unequal same-sex survivor's pensions: The EWCA refuses to apply CJEU precedents or refer. INDUSTRIAL LAW JOURNAL, 45(1), 89-99. [dww001]. DOI: 10.1093/indlaw/dww001

2015

Andersson, J. C. A. (2015). 'Wilding’ in the West Village: queer space, racism, and Jane Jacobs hagiography, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39(2), 265-283. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12188

Andersson, J., Vanderbeck, R. M., Sadgrove, J., Valentine, G., & Ward, K. (2015). The transnational debate over homosexuality in the Anglican communion. In The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics (pp. 3283-3301). Springer Netherlands. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_172

Gallagher, R. (2015). Intergenerational Tensions: Of Sex and the Hardware Cycle. In Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games (pp. 13-27). Bloomsbury Academic.

Li, E. C. Y. (2015). Affect and Sociology: Reflection and Exploration through a Study of Media and Gender in Urban China. Graduate Journal of Social Science, 11(1), 15-37.

Li, E. C. Y. (2015). Approaching Transnational Chinese Queer Stardom as Zhongxing ('Neutral Sex/Gender') Sensibility. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 1(1), 75-95. DOI: 10.1386/eapc.1.1.75_1

Li, E. C. Y., Kong, T. S. K., & Lau, S. H. L. (2015). The Fourth Wave? A Critical Reflection on Tongzhi Movement in Hong Kong. In M. McLelland, & V. Mackie (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia (pp. 188-201). Routledge.

Li, E. C. Y., Kong, T. S. K., & Lau, S. H. L. (2016). Sexual Cultures in Asia. In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology, Second Edition (2 ed.). Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss087.pub2

Matzner, S. (2015). Literary Criticism and/as Gender Reassignment: Reading the Classics with Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. In K. Fisher, & R. Langlands (Eds.), Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past (pp. 200-220). (Classical Presences). Oxford University Press.

Matzner, S. (2015). Of That I Know Many Examples...: On the Relationship of Greek Theory and Roman Practices in Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Writings on the Third Sex. In J. Ingleheart (Ed.), Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities (pp. 93-108). (Classical Presences). Oxford University Press.

Orrells, D. J. (2015). Sex: Antiquity and its Legacy. IB Tauris, London/New York.

Scharff, C. (2015). Blowing your own trumpet: Exploring the gendered dynamics of self-promotion in the classical music profession. The Sociological Review, 63(S1), 97-112. DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12243

Wintemute, R. (2015). Message-printing businesses, non-discrimination and free expression: Northern Ireland’s ‘support gay marriage’ cake case. King's Law Journal, 26(3), 348-356. [A002]. DOI: 10.1080/09615768.2015.1114715

2014

Balani, S. (2014). many voices, one chant: 30^th anniversary roundtable. Feminist Review, 108(1) (pp. 26-43).

Carter, E. A. (2014). The Visible Woman in and against Béla Balázs. In M. Hagener (Ed.), The Emergence of Film Culture: Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945 (Film Europa). Oxford and New York: Berghahn.

Carter, E. (2014). The New Woman and the ekphrastic poetics of Bela Balazs. Screen, 55(3), 404-412. DOI: 10.1093/screen/hju030

Gallagher, R. (2014). From camp to kitsch: A queer eye on console fandom. G|A|M|E, (3), 39-50.

Matzner, S. (2014). Homophilhellenismus: Heinrich Hösslis Eros und der emanzipatorische Rekurs auf die Männerliebe der Griechen. In R. Thalmann, & H-H-S. (Eds.), "Keine Liebe ist an sich Tugend oder Laster". Heinrich Hössli und sein Kampf für die Männerliebe (pp. 97-128). Chronos.

Salih, M. S. A. L. (2014). The Trouble with 'Female Sexuality'. Different Visions, 5.

Saunders, R. (2014). The Pornographic Paratexts of Pornhub. In N. Desrochers, & D. Apollon (Eds.), Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture Hershey PA.

Scharff, C. (2014). Schröder versus Schwarzer? Analysing the discursive terrain of media debates on feminism. Feminist Media Studies, 14(5), 837-852. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2013.805157

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