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Queer Geek Theory
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    • Employment, Education, and Research
    • Publications
    • Talks and Presentations
    • Teaching Experience
    • Service and Other Related Work
  • Research
  • Video
    • What is vidding?
    • The Future Stops Here (2008)
    • Love is the Plan the Plan is Death / Sons and Daughters (Battlestar Galactica) (2008)
    • The Enemy Within (Battlestar Galatica; collaboration) (2009)
    • Metal Heart (Battlestar Galactica) (2011)
    • Black Steel (Born in Flames) (2012)
  • Writing
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  • Upcoming

Tiptree Fellowships 2015: call for applications

By Alexis Lothian May 31, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

I’ve just come back from WisCon, the world’s leading feminist science fiction convention (now in its 39th year), where I am now co-chairing the academic track. It went fabulously, and…

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Queer Speculations: Twitter archive

By Alexis Lothian April 23, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

DC Queer Studies Conference. 17 April 2015. University of Maryland College Park.

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Queer Speculations: the first event

By Alexis Lothian March 14, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

This week, Tavia Nyong’o was on campus for the first installment of Queer Speculations, the LGBT Studies lecture series and conference (April 17!) that I have been working on this…

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WisCon Academic Track: call for proposals

By Alexis Lothian February 8, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

This year, along with Lauren Lacey, I have taken over as co-chair of academic programming at WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention for which I have immense and enduring love.…

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Embodied digital humanities: a few links

By Alexis Lothian February 8, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

Created to aid citation; only archives my (@alothian)’s tweets as I can’t search back far enough in the timeline for others.

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DC Queer Studies Symposium: Queer Speculations (April 17 2015)

By Alexis Lothian November 22, 2014 Uncategorized No Comments

One of the first and most exciting tasks I’ve undertaken in my new job has been inviting speakers and developing the theme for the annual DC Queer Studies Symposium – an…

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Yes is No: speculative thoughts on the Scottish referendum

By Alexis Lothian September 14, 2014 Uncategorized 5 Comments

I don’t write a lot here about being Scottish. I haven’t ever made much of it in my academic work, in my professional life. I haven’t lived in Scotland since…

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On social media, digital politics, and personal change

By Alexis Lothian August 28, 2014 Uncategorized 1 Comment

As I gear up for my first semester at the University of Maryland, I’m thinking a lot about academic and social positionings, offline and on. More particularly, about my own…

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Collaborations

By Alexis Lothian July 12, 2014 Uncategorized No Comments

My summer has thus far been spent moving, with little time for web updates. But I have had two collaborative pieces come out in the past few months, and not…

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New worlds

By Alexis Lothian May 12, 2014 Uncategorized No Comments

I am overdue on a few announcements here; let me start with the biggest one. This fall, I will be moving to the Washington, DC area to start a new…

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Alexis Lothian

Assistant Professor of Women's Studies/
LGBT Studies
and Core Faculty
in Design Cultures and Creativity,
University of Maryland College Park

Twitter: @alothian

My Tweets

links: online scholarship

  • Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology
  • Critical Commons
  • Media Commons
  • Social Text Periscope
  • Transformative Works and Cultures

links: organizations

  • Carl Brandon Society
  • FemBot Collective
  • HASTAC
  • Organization for Transformative Works
  • Tiptree Award

links: people and blogs

  • Ambling Along the Aqueduct
  • Avery Dame
  • Cited at the Crossroads (Annemarie Perez)
  • Feminist Frequency
  • Henry Jenkins
  • Julie Levin Russo
  • Kristina Busse
  • Louisa Stein
  • Queererworlds (Melissa Rogers)
  • Revenge of the Fans (Suzanne Scott)
  • s0metim3s (Angela Mitropoulos)
  • Supervalent Thought (Lauren Berlant)
  • Transliterature: Things Transform
  • Works Cited (Natalia Cecire)

Archives

  • November 2017
  • December 2016
  • August 2016
  • April 2016
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  • November 2015
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  • November 2014
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  • November 2013
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  • December 2012
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  • December 2011
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  • October 2010
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  • November 2009
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