Greg Youmans’s essay “Greener Pastures: Filming Sex and Place at Druid Heights” will appear later this year in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, edited by Ronald Gregg and Amy Villarejo (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). He also served as the film consultant for the Oakland Museum of California’s exhibition Queer California: Untold Stories. The exhibition was on view from April 13 to August 11, and he gave a talk at the museum about the film selections in June. In his teaching, he developed a new course topic for ENG 406: Topics in Critical and Cultural Theory: “Dream/Film,” a course that considers art and experimental film practices in relation to various theories of dreaming and of cinema and of the relationship between the two.
Ely Shipley
Ely Shipley’s second full-length book Some Animal won the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature, is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry, and has received positive reviews in Publishers Weekly, DIAGRAM, Ocean State Review, and Lambda Literary Review. Publishers Weekly calls it a “riveting exploration of what it means to come of age in a genderqueer body” that is “steeped in Anglo-American poetry and literary theory” and claims that “what sets this book apart is its focused attention to the experience of defying the gender binary, of being in a body that intimates and strangers alike are bent on denying…Shipley’s book is one of hard truths, lovingly rendered.” Some Animal was listed as one of the best poetry collections of 2018 by Entropy, as well as poet CA Conrad. Ely has been having a blast teaching poetry and multigenre workshops, as well as a course on Anne Carson.
Donna Qualley
Donna Qualley’s Afterword, “With and Because of Genevieve,” was published in the online collection, The Rhetoric of Participation, in March of 2019. This collection honors the scholarship of the late Genevieve Critel who was to have begun her career as an Assistant Professor in English (Writing Studies) at Western in the fall of 2012. Donna published a second chapter, “How Digital Writing Sustains Reading” in a the edited collection, Digital reading and Writing in Composition Studies, also published in 2019 by Routledge.