E L Mccallum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1254185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E L Mccallum |
| GIVEN NAMES | E L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccallum |
| SIGNATURE | MCCALLUM E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | English, Michigan State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5192-7450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Amoebic Narrative
This essay poses a series of stories, drawn from Renee Gladman's Ravicka novels and accounts of social amoebas/slime molds in feminist science studies and science fiction. The author aims to respond to Sylvia Wynter's call for a new science from a queer vantage. Given Wynter's understanding of the centrality of stories to human autopoeisis, the author considers how queer stories take new forms, beyond the norms of narrative closure as detailed in…
A Moving Which Is Not a Moving
Michael Snow's canonical experimental film Wavelength is commonly understood to model cinematic apparatus theory. This essay reads Wavelength through a different apparatus, one used in physics' well-known double-slit experiment to demonstrate the wave theory of light. Reading the film via this quantum apparatus orients us to a different mode of spectatorship than cinema's apparatus theory—a mode of fascination. Reading Wavelength through fascinat…
Not Your Mother’s Melodrama
This essay argues that twenty-first-century melodrama films by female directors rework the core components of classic melodrama form—not only its timing, but also narrative form, agnition, and the underlying fantasy of union. While they retain a focus on objects and setting as bearers of emotion, and on a crisis in intimate relations, the three films by Chantal Akerman, Claire Denis, and Ann Hui considered here reconsider melodrama’s possibilitie…
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic
This Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show how the Gothic in numerous forms - including literature, film, television, and cyberspace - helps audiences both to distance themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying problems of m…
Queer Times, Queer Becomings
Becoming Unbecoming
Toward a Photography of Love
Toward a Photography of Love: The Tain of the Photograph in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red E.L. McCallum Abstract This essay examines the idea of the verbal photograph, particularly those in Anne Carson’s novel Autobiography of Red and Barthes’s winter garden photograph in Camera Lucida. The essay argues for a reconsideration of classic photography theory in light of the tensions around these seemingly absent photographs, suggesting that a co…
The Timezone Endgame
YOU'VE SEEN THEM IN TRAVEL AGENCIES, NEWS BUREAUS, AND LOBBIES OF multinational businesses: the row of clocks lined up with names of cities under them, each face showing a different time. New York: noon; Paris: 6 P.M.; Tel Aviv: 7 P.M.; Moscow: 8 P.M.; New Delhi: 10:30 P.M.; Kuala Lumpur: 1 A.M.; Tokyo: 2 A.M.; Sydney: 3 A.M.; Honolulu: 6 A.M.; San Francisco: 9 A.M. Which particular cities are listed is a matter of indifference, really, though th…
Mapping the Real in Cyberfiction
Cyberfiction offers a tantalizing view of what a completely networked world might be like; yet even with distance transcended by computers and phone links, the real world persists as an important component of these narratives. Examining the representation of real spaces in cyberpunk fiction not only reveals the narratives' reliance on events in "real" space but also shows how their assumptions about organizing space and distributing power are mor…
Mother Talk
How to Do Things with Fetishism
Research Article| November 01 1995 How to Do Things with Fetishism E. L. McCallum E. L. McCallum e. l. mccallum is a PhD candidate in the Modern Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is completing a dissertation on fetishism as a critical figure in psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodernist theories. She has also contributed to the collection Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault (Pennsylvania State UP, 1996).…
Not Your Mother’s Melodrama
This essay argues that twenty-first-century melodrama films by female directors rework the core components of classic melodrama form—not only its timing, but also narrative form, agnition, and the underlying fantasy of union. While they retain a focus on objects and setting as bearers of emotion, and on a crisis in intimate relations, the three films by Chantal Akerman, Claire Denis, and Ann Hui considered here reconsider melodrama’s possibilitie…
Mapping the Real in Cyberfiction
Cyberfiction offers a tantalizing view of what a completely networked world might be like; yet even with distance transcended by computers and phone links, the real world persists as an important component of these narratives. Examining the representation of real spaces in cyberpunk fiction not only reveals the narratives' reliance on events in "real" space but also shows how their assumptions about organizing space and distributing power are mor…
Mother Talk
How to Do Things with Fetishism
Research Article| November 01 1995 How to Do Things with Fetishism E. L. McCallum E. L. McCallum e. l. mccallum is a PhD candidate in the Modern Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is completing a dissertation on fetishism as a critical figure in psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodernist theories. She has also contributed to the collection Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault (Pennsylvania State UP, 1996).…
Mother Talk
Mapping the Real in Cyberfiction
Cyberfiction offers a tantalizing view of what a completely networked world might be like; yet even with distance transcended by computers and phone links, the real world persists as an important component of these narratives. Examining the representation of real spaces in cyberpunk fiction not only reveals the narratives' reliance on events in "real" space but also shows how their assumptions about organizing space and distributing power are mor…
The Timezone Endgame
YOU'VE SEEN THEM IN TRAVEL AGENCIES, NEWS BUREAUS, AND LOBBIES OF multinational businesses: the row of clocks lined up with names of cities under them, each face showing a different time. New York: noon; Paris: 6 P.M.; Tel Aviv: 7 P.M.; Moscow: 8 P.M.; New Delhi: 10:30 P.M.; Kuala Lumpur: 1 A.M.; Tokyo: 2 A.M.; Sydney: 3 A.M.; Honolulu: 6 A.M.; San Francisco: 9 A.M. Which particular cities are listed is a matter of indifference, really, though th…
Toward a Photography of Love
Toward a Photography of Love: The Tain of the Photograph in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red E.L. McCallum Abstract This essay examines the idea of the verbal photograph, particularly those in Anne Carson’s novel Autobiography of Red and Barthes’s winter garden photograph in Camera Lucida. The essay argues for a reconsideration of classic photography theory in light of the tensions around these seemingly absent photographs, suggesting that a co…
Queer Times, Queer Becomings
Becoming Unbecoming
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic
This Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show how the Gothic in numerous forms - including literature, film, television, and cyberspace - helps audiences both to distance themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying problems of m…
Not Your Mother’s Melodrama
This essay argues that twenty-first-century melodrama films by female directors rework the core components of classic melodrama form—not only its timing, but also narrative form, agnition, and the underlying fantasy of union. While they retain a focus on objects and setting as bearers of emotion, and on a crisis in intimate relations, the three films by Chantal Akerman, Claire Denis, and Ann Hui considered here reconsider melodrama’s possibilitie…
A Moving Which Is Not a Moving
Michael Snow's canonical experimental film Wavelength is commonly understood to model cinematic apparatus theory. This essay reads Wavelength through a different apparatus, one used in physics' well-known double-slit experiment to demonstrate the wave theory of light. Reading the film via this quantum apparatus orients us to a different mode of spectatorship than cinema's apparatus theory—a mode of fascination. Reading Wavelength through fascinat…
Amoebic Narrative
This essay poses a series of stories, drawn from Renee Gladman's Ravicka novels and accounts of social amoebas/slime molds in feminist science studies and science fiction. The author aims to respond to Sylvia Wynter's call for a new science from a queer vantage. Given Wynter's understanding of the centrality of stories to human autopoeisis, the author considers how queer stories take new forms, beyond the norms of narrative closure as detailed in…
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