New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vast—and increasingly uncharted—intersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore.
This handbook convenes an international group of experts who work on the classical world and queer theory. The discipline of Classics has been involved with, and implicated in, queer theory from the start. By placing front and center the rejection of heteronormativity, queer theory has provided Classics with a powerful tool for analyzing non-normative sexual and gender relations in the ancient West, while Classics offers queer theory ancient material (such as literature, visual arts, and social practices) that challenges a wide range of modern normative categories. The collection demonstrates the vitality of this particular moment in queer classical studies, featuring an expansive array of methodologies applied to the interdisciplinary field of Classics. Embracing the indeterminacy that lies at the core of queer studies, the essays in this volume are organized not by chronology or genre, but rather by overlapping categories under the following rubrics: queer subjectivities, queer times and places, queer kinships, queer receptions, and ancient pasts/queer futures.
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory offers an invaluable collection for anyone working on queer theory, especially as it applies to premodern periods; it will also be of interest to scholars engaging with the history of sexuality, both in the ancient world and more broadly.
New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the intersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore. This is an invaluable volume for those working on queer theory and the history of sexuality.
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"Each chapter, in a remarkable polyphony, rich in diverse echoes and dynamic tensions, poses its own questions on notions such as subjectivity, spatiality and temporality, genealogy, and on the queer relationship of classical studies to their past, their present, and above all their future... This work will be of interest to classicists who are curious about what their field of research is becoming and can or should become, but specialists of queer studies would also be inspired by it." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
General Introduction - Ella Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim, and Kirk
Ormand; Classics and Queer Theory: Beginnings;
1. How Did We Get Here? - Kirk
Ormand; Queer Subjectivities;
2. 'Wild' Achilles and the Epistemology of the
Ferox in Homers Iliad - Melissa Mueller;
3. Black[ ened] Queer Classical:
Ciceros pro Archia poeta and Senecas Natural Questions (and Epistulae
Morales 114) in Posthuman Perspective - Patrice Rankine;
4. Priapus
Unlimited: Queer(ing) Identity, Agency, and Bodies without Boundaries in
Roman Art - Linnea Åshede;
5. Tribad Philaenis and Lesbian Bassa: Queer
Subjectivities in Martial - Kristin Mann;
6. Queering Divine Authority and
Logical Consistency in Aeschylus Oresteia - Giulia Maria Chesi;
7. Catullus
Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Between Freud and Foucault - Paul Allen
Miller;
8. A Murky Unlearning: Sophocles and the Greek Art of Failure -
Francesca Spiegel; Queer Times and Places;
9. Queer Musicality in Classical
Texts - Tom Sapsford;
10. Encountering Absence: Queer Traces, Ghosts, and
Performance Otherwise - Marcus Bell;
11. Queerly Beloved: Nemesis, Credula
Spes, and Queer Temporalities in Tibullus Book 2 - Sara H. Lindheim;
12. Time
and Punishment, or Terences Queer Pedagogy - David Youd;
13. Narcissus and
the Happy Inch: Queering Social Reproduction in the Roman House - David
Fredrick;
14. 'How Could a City Become Straight?:' Aristophanes and the Trans
Foundations of the Comic State - Isabel Ruffell; Queer Kinships;
15.
Hippocrates the 'Father'? Disturbing Attachment Genealogies in the History of
Ancient Medicine - Nicolette DAngelo;
16. Tamquam Favus: Queer Kinship and
Monetary Value in Petronius Cena Trimalchionis - Elliott Piros;
17.
Nonbinary Mercury and the Queer Arts of Astrology - Hannah Silverblank;
18.
Queering Kinship against Genealogy: Crip Ancestorship, Chosen Families,
Alternative Intimacies and Other Ways of Refusing the Classical Tradition -
Marchella Ward;
19. Queer Kinship in Ancient Literature - Jay Oliver;
20. The
Greatest Generation: Golden Age, Spontaneous Generation, and Queer Kinship in
Vergils Georgics - Martin Devecka; Queer Receptions;
21. Queering Feminine
Movement: Sappho, H Xuân Hýõng and Vi Khi Nao - Kelly Nguyen;
22. Les
Guérillères: Sappho and the Lesbian Body - Irene Han;
23. The Rise and Fall
of the Queer Male Body in Mid-Century Muscle Photography - Alastair J.L.
Blanshard; 24; Destinys Queer Scribblings: Greek Myth and Etiologies of
HIV/AIDS - Emilio Capettini;
25. Socrates and Sedgwick: Ancient Greece in
Epistemology of the Closet - Daniel Orrells;
26. Shedding Light, Casting
Shadows: Queerness, Club Performances, and the Faux-Natural Narratives of
Classical Reception - Eleonora Colli; Ancient Pasts/Queer Futures
27. Queer
Philology - Shane Butler;
28. How to Do the History of Elagabalus - Zach
Herz;
29. Queer Interspeciesism, or Oppians Wild Love - Mario Telò;
30.
Sapphos Body, Queer Abstraction, and Lesbian Futurity - Ella Haselswerdt;
31. Medeas Ghosts: Cherríe Moraga and Queer Ecologies - Nancy Worman;
32.
Speculation on classical reception: Queer Desire and N.K. Jemisins 'The
Effluence Engine' - Mathura Umachandran.
Ella Haselswerdt is an Assistant Professor of Classics at UCLA. She has broad interests in poetics, aesthetics, and reception, and has published on the dreamscapes of the ancient body, the soundscapes of Oedipus at Colonus, the mythic geography of Philoctetes, and philology as a site of queer liberation. She has two current major projects: the first explores the conceptual, expressive capacities of the tragic chorus via trauma theory, queer theory, and posthumanism; the second is a multifaceted approach to Sappho and contemporary lesbian identity, under the rubric "Deep Lez Philology."
Sara H. Lindheim is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovids Heroides (2003) and Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire (2021). She has also co-edited with Helen Morales New Essays on Homer: Language, Violence, and Agency (2015), although her work generally focuses on gender and subjectivity in Latin poetry of the late Republic and the Augustan Age.
Kirk Ormand is the Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College. He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy (1999), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (2014), and Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (2nd ed., 2018); he has co-edited with Ruby Blondell Ancient Sex: New Essays (2015) and has published essays on various ancient authors, Michel Foucault, and Clint Eastwood.
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