The book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]

A contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.

Sin duda tomando como base el que la condición del libro como elemento de transmisión de un contenido posee en sí misma “un interés conceptual o intelectual” (Reyes Gómez 39), los estudios de bibliografía material han empezado a desplazar un tanto, en términos científicos, a los de bibliografía erudita, tanto en su más clásico perfil, el de…[Read more]

Sin duda tomando como base el que la condición del libro como elemento de transmisión de un contenido posee en sí misma “un interés conceptual o intelectual” (Reyes Gómez 39), los estudios de bibliografía material han empezado a desplazar un tanto, en términos científicos, a los de bibliografía erudita, tanto en su más clásico perfil, el de…[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]

A brief account of a translation experiment of the Scottish poet, historian, and fraud John Pinkerton presented in the context of the reception of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski and his poetry in 18th century Scotland.

The article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]

La presente comunicación pretende glosar algunos pequeños detalles biográficos de Luis Crespí de Valldaura, noble valenciano, hijo homónimo del II señor de Sumacàrcer, que fue uno de los primeros profesores del incipiente Studi General valenciano y rector del mismo entre los años 1506 y 1507. Además de esta presencia destacada en el ámbito u…[Read more]

The paper discusses English translators of the poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski of the early Victorian period. The paper traces Sarbiewski’s transitions within English literary canon and aims at reconstructing the change in attitudes towards the translation process, quality, and assessment.

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]