In this presentation, we provide an overview of the contents and development of The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, a recently-launched open access collection of over 330 tunes and songs. The audio, sheet music, stories, and essays can be viewed and/or listened to on mobile devices, tablets, and computers. Through Omeka and SoundCloud,…[Read more]

This handout was presented as a take away for a workshop at MLA TechCamp 2018. This workshop will provide an overview of fair use as it applies to digital projects. It will particularly benefit anyone planning, attempting to fund (via a grant), or currently managing a digital project that is aimed at providing access to made-digital or…[Read more]

This workshop will provide an overview of fair use as it applies to digital projects. It will particularly benefit anyone planning, attempting to fund (via a grant), or currently managing a digital project that is aimed at providing access to made-digital or born-digital content. It will include suggestions for checklist and analysis tools that…[Read more]

“Confessions of a Frigid Man: A Philosopher’s Journey into the Hidden Layers of Men’s Sexuality” is the translation of a Japanese 2005 bestseller. Soon after the publication, this book stirred controversy over the nature of male sexuality, male “frigidity,” and its connection to the “Lolita complex.” Today, this work is considered a classic in…[Read more]

Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (nacido en 1973) es un compositor peruano/brasileño/estadounidense que estudió composición en São Paulo en la Faculdade Santa Marcelina y en los Estados Unidos en la Universidad Internacional de Florida y la Universidad de Boston. Su cuarteto de cuerdas no. 3 apareció en un disco reciente de cuartetos de cuerda lati…[Read more]

In the twenty-first century, the majority of people are living in cities—at least this is the credo communicated frequently. This statement has been strengthened by the “urban renaissance” that dawned at the beginning of the twenty-first century and by a globally evident increase in capital investment in urban-development projects. Such plann…[Read more]

This is an interview conducted to Pedro Lemebel, a Chilean visual artist and writer, who in the 1990s established himself as one of the most provocative and wrenching voices in the contemporary literary culture of Chile and Latin America in general. His chronicles direct their most confrontational barbs towards practices that regulate the traffic…[Read more]

The present paper aims at a presentation of the issue of religion in ‘Maurice’ – both in the text of the novel and in its readings. Religion is one of the main forces which influence the social and personal life presented in E. M. Forster’s ‘Maurice’. Its place is quite naturally second to the influence of the law, and yet it is religious upb…[Read more]

This critical commentary argues that the novels submitted (emphasis on Ammonite, The Blue Place, and Hild, with three others, Slow River, Stay, and Always briefly referenced), form a coherent body of work which centres and norms the experience of the Other, particularly queer women. Close reading of the novels demonstrates how specific word-choice…[Read more]

Entre la injuria y la revolución narra la historia del Frente de Liberación Homosexual (FLH), un colectivo político argentino que reunió a sujetos con identidades disidentes a la norma heterosexual y cuyo objetivo era luchar por una revolución social y sexual. En esta agrupación coexistieron marxistas, filoperonistas, cristianos, anarq…[Read more]

RuPaul’s Drag Race is one of the few reality television shows focusing on QLGBT (queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) identified individuals that has made it into mainstream consciousness. Drag Race provides a unique perspective on the ways that gender identity, sexuality, size, class, race, and ethnicity intersect and interact in…[Read more]

The paper presents the presence of English homosexual authors in Polish literary studies mostly aimed at students of history of English literature. From a review: “As indicated in the opening paragraphs, queer theory and broadly LGBTIQ approaches have been finding new homes as well as finally being given voices in publication. One such from…[Read more]

This study presents the formative period of the English novelist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) with a special stress on the usage of symbolism in his early fiction. The book offers a new approach to Forster’s symbolism derived from the theoretical studies of Michael Riffaterre and his concept of symbolic systems – subtext and syllepsis. The author…[Read more]

This study explores the meanings, preferences, and power relations ascribed to sexual roles. One hundred and seventy-eight men having sex with men (MSM) participated in an online survey in 2010, seven of whom participated in a faceto- face in-depth interview in order describe the scripts attached to sexual roles, preferences for sexual partners,…[Read more]