Kris Trujillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2077242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kris Trujillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kris |
| FAMILY NAME | Trujillo |
| SIGNATURE | TRUJILLO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Muñoz and the Mystical Tradition
José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising Utopia has assumed an emblematic status in queer of color critique's temporal orientation by cementing its attachment to the future. This association between queer of color critique and queer futurity emerges in large part from its opposition to the so-called antisocial thesis in queer theory—an opposition that is infamously staged as a conflict between Muñoz's utopianism and Lee Edelman's polemic against reproductiv…
Queer Melancholia
GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, founded in 1993, offers an exemplary site for understanding the rise of queer theory, which, from the start, has struggled with the tension between institutionalization and radical resistance. By situating the emergence of this journal and queer theory in general within the AIDS crisis and the literary tradition of the elegy, this essay offers a reading of conventional academic practices as rituals of qu…
Critical confessions now
“That Abominable Solitary Vice We Call Theory”
Organized around the complete works of John of the Cross, Juan Goytisolo’s Las virtudes del pájaro solitario (1988) presents a radical characterization of mysticism aligned with the spontaneity and immediacy of poetic genius. Through an elaboration of the opposition between critique and creation or theory and practice, Goytisolo aligns his version of mysticism with heresy and negative theology. But how might a return to John of the Cross’s writin…
Queer Melancholia
GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, founded in 1993, offers an exemplary site for understanding the rise of queer theory, which, from the start, has struggled with the tension between institutionalization and radical resistance. By situating the emergence of this journal and queer theory in general within the AIDS crisis and the literary tradition of the elegy, this essay offers a reading of conventional academic practices as rituals of qu…
“That Abominable Solitary Vice We Call Theory”
Organized around the complete works of John of the Cross, Juan Goytisolo’s Las virtudes del pájaro solitario (1988) presents a radical characterization of mysticism aligned with the spontaneity and immediacy of poetic genius. Through an elaboration of the opposition between critique and creation or theory and practice, Goytisolo aligns his version of mysticism with heresy and negative theology. But how might a return to John of the Cross’s writin…
Critical confessions now
Queer Melancholia
GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, founded in 1993, offers an exemplary site for understanding the rise of queer theory, which, from the start, has struggled with the tension between institutionalization and radical resistance. By situating the emergence of this journal and queer theory in general within the AIDS crisis and the literary tradition of the elegy, this essay offers a reading of conventional academic practices as rituals of qu…
Muñoz and the Mystical Tradition
José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising Utopia has assumed an emblematic status in queer of color critique's temporal orientation by cementing its attachment to the future. This association between queer of color critique and queer futurity emerges in large part from its opposition to the so-called antisocial thesis in queer theory—an opposition that is infamously staged as a conflict between Muñoz's utopianism and Lee Edelman's polemic against reproductiv…
Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Early Modern Women Writers (1 work)