Book Chapters (Selected) |
“Online Performance Poetry as Trans Literature”. The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp, Routledge, 2024
“Homoeroticsm and the Meta-Textual Fangirl in Supernatural.” A Supernatural Politics: Essays on Social Engagement, Fandom and the Series, edited by Lisa Macklem and Dominick Grace, McFarland, 2021 Haunted Families, Queer Temporalities and the Horrors of Normativity in The Haunting of Hill House in The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on The Haunting Netflix Adaptation ed. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., McFarland & Company, Inc., 2020 Supernatural: Wincest, Destiel and Dean Winchester's Bisexual Panic in Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities ed. Joseph Brennan, University of Iowa Press, 2019 AIDS, Homophobia and the Monstrous Upside Down: The Queer Subtext of Stranger Things in Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series ed. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018 Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping, and ‘The Cursed Child' in Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse ed. Amanda Firestone and Leisa A. Clark, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2018 |
Journal Articles
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The Homoerotics of the Boyband, Queerbaiting and RPF in Pop Music Fandoms, Journal of Fandom Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2018)
The Class Divide: Creditors Fight for Equality as the SIVs Collapse, International Insolvency Law Review, Volume 2, 2010 |
Conference Papers
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Queer Desire and Coercive Control in ‘The Prussian Officer’ by D.H. Lawrence (1914) and Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane (1917), Narratives of Coercive Control, University of York (April 2024)
Black, LGBTQ+, American Poets: From Harlem to Cyberspace, LGBT History Month Day of Papers, York Explore Library (February 2024) Raids, Raves and Rap: (Counter)Public Order and the Policing of Music Subcultures, Critical Legal Conference, University of Durham, September 2023 (co-authored with Dr Clare Young) Scares, Spies and Cold War Anxieties: Contextualising the Path to Gay Liberation, The Neglected Decade: Legal Issues of the 1950s, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Online Conference, November 2022 "This is still an ugly world": Conversion Therapy, Erasure and Resistance in American Teen Narratives, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of York, April 2022 Performance Poetry and Participatory Culture, Lines of Enquiry: Poetry Symposium, University of York, July 2021 Witness to an Unbroken Spirit: Poetry From the AIDS Epidemic, Arts in Eras of Emergency, University of Cambridge, July 2020 Boybands and the Pink Pound: From '90s Homoerotics to One Direction and Homosocial Desire, Queer Celebrity Conference, University of Portsmouth, June 2019 Transgender Performance Poetry and The Ghosts of Childhood, Queer Art of Feeling Conference, University of Cambridge, May 2019 Tales of the City: America's Queer Geographies in Gay Male Authored Fiction, York Explore Library, 2018 Harry Potter and the Quest for Family: Heteronormativity in the Potterverse, Las Vegas, 2016 Queer Identity in Contemporary YA Fiction at ‘Let’s Hear it for the Girls’ interdisciplinary conference, Warwick University, 2016 All Publicity is Good Publicity? On Selling and Silencing Fanfiction at the ‘Annual Great Creative Writing Conference,’ Imperial College London, 2015 Numerous panel roles at fan conventions, including Nine Worlds Geek Fest (London, England (2012, 2013, 2015)), Dragon*Con (Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2012)) and Leviosa (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (2016)). Panel topics have included queering popular culture, slash fiction and feminism, ageism and body image in femmeslash and queer representation in young adult fiction. |
Media |
Various podcast appearances and quotations in media, including The Guardian, The Mary Sue, Bustle, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Radio York, Fansplaining and others.
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Non-Academic Media |
Various media articles on topics including Boybands and Fangirls, Tom Robinson Band, Cosplay and Drag and the queer nostalgia of reading LGBT young adult fiction as an adult.
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