Elizabeth Whitney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Whitney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitney |
| SIGNATURE | WHITNEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Walt Disney (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sex that God Can’t See: Heteronormativity, Whiteness, and the Erasure of Queer Desire in Popular Media
Research Article| June 01 2017 The Sex that God Can’t See: Heteronormativity, Whiteness, and the Erasure of Queer Desire in Popular Media Elizabeth Whitney Elizabeth Whitney Elizabeth Whitney is an assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in the City University of New York. During the 2015–2016 academic year she was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Medi…
The Dangerous Real: Queer Solo Performance in/as Active Disruption
Like all radical community endeavours, queer performance in the United States has been shaped through resistance to restrictive ideologies. National insecurity over ‘indecent’ (read: queer) artistic expression in the US has been aimed at artists working in a variety of genres, and here I focus specifically on queer solo performance artists. This essay explores the dangerous realities that queer artists present to an imagined unified US national i…
Queer Longing, Queer Failure: A Performative Lecture on Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
This essay argues that performative lecture functions as a hybrid form allowing for the presentation of historical research with artistic license. As an example, I offer a performative lecture on Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842–1932), a Quaker abolitionist, playwright, lyceum lecturer, and actor. Looking critically and nostalgically at Dickinson's life, the project accounts for her queer failure by exploring the ephemerality of artistic success. P…
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies Part III: Be Careful What You Wish For—A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
Part three of this series finds junior faculty The Assistant Professor Formerly Known As Barbie musing the accomplishment of finally having a tenure-track teaching position
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies: A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
The highly competitive quest for a tenure-track position in performance studies puts junior faculty in high-stakes situations. This narrative essay is the first in a three-part story about Barbie and The Martha—two graduate school friends who are navigating the tenuous waters of their first full-time teaching positions. The author employs self-referential academic humor to explore the challenges new faculty face in securing and maintaining their …
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies Part II: Graduate School Flashback—A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
Part II of the continuing saga of junior faculty follows Barbie into a flashback at the end of her graduate school career and the beginning of her search for an academic home
Pop Culture Princess
Capitalizing on Camp: Greed and the Queer Marketplace
The queering of contemporary Western culture is a subtle yet ongoing process, despite strong resistance on the part of moralizing, right wing factions. Camp, as a marker of tradition in LGBT communities, plays an important role in these conflicts. Additionally, this “queering” often happens through direct cooptation of queer identity and cultural practices—going unacknowledged as it is newly marked as heteronormative practice. This performative e…
Get it While you Can: Dis/locating Subjectivity in Busted Flat in Baton Rouge
Cyborgs Among Us: Performing Liminal States of Sexuality
This essay complicates female bisexual identity by combining traditional academic inquiry with personal narrative. As author, I position myself both as objective researcher and as a material body which is affected by the cultural conditions which the research explores and critiques. I review contemporary literature which suggests the limitations of bisexuality as a category, which seeks to dismantle western dualisms while simultaneously reifying …
Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, edited by Elyce Rae Helford
Cyborgs Among Us: Performing Liminal States of Sexuality
This essay complicates female bisexual identity by combining traditional academic inquiry with personal narrative. As author, I position myself both as objective researcher and as a material body which is affected by the cultural conditions which the research explores and critiques. I review contemporary literature which suggests the limitations of bisexuality as a category, which seeks to dismantle western dualisms while simultaneously reifying …
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies: A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
The highly competitive quest for a tenure-track position in performance studies puts junior faculty in high-stakes situations. This narrative essay is the first in a three-part story about Barbie and The Martha—two graduate school friends who are navigating the tenuous waters of their first full-time teaching positions. The author employs self-referential academic humor to explore the challenges new faculty face in securing and maintaining their …
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies Part II: Graduate School Flashback—A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
Part II of the continuing saga of junior faculty follows Barbie into a flashback at the end of her graduate school career and the beginning of her search for an academic home
The Dangerous Real: Queer Solo Performance in/as Active Disruption
Like all radical community endeavours, queer performance in the United States has been shaped through resistance to restrictive ideologies. National insecurity over ‘indecent’ (read: queer) artistic expression in the US has been aimed at artists working in a variety of genres, and here I focus specifically on queer solo performance artists. This essay explores the dangerous realities that queer artists present to an imagined unified US national i…
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies Part III: Be Careful What You Wish For—A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
Part three of this series finds junior faculty The Assistant Professor Formerly Known As Barbie musing the accomplishment of finally having a tenure-track teaching position
Capitalizing on Camp: Greed and the Queer Marketplace
The queering of contemporary Western culture is a subtle yet ongoing process, despite strong resistance on the part of moralizing, right wing factions. Camp, as a marker of tradition in LGBT communities, plays an important role in these conflicts. Additionally, this “queering” often happens through direct cooptation of queer identity and cultural practices—going unacknowledged as it is newly marked as heteronormative practice. This performative e…
Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, edited by Elyce Rae Helford
Cyborgs Among Us: Performing Liminal States of Sexuality
This essay complicates female bisexual identity by combining traditional academic inquiry with personal narrative. As author, I position myself both as objective researcher and as a material body which is affected by the cultural conditions which the research explores and critiques. I review contemporary literature which suggests the limitations of bisexuality as a category, which seeks to dismantle western dualisms while simultaneously reifying …
Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, edited by Elyce Rae Helford
Capitalizing on Camp: Greed and the Queer Marketplace
The queering of contemporary Western culture is a subtle yet ongoing process, despite strong resistance on the part of moralizing, right wing factions. Camp, as a marker of tradition in LGBT communities, plays an important role in these conflicts. Additionally, this “queering” often happens through direct cooptation of queer identity and cultural practices—going unacknowledged as it is newly marked as heteronormative practice. This performative e…
Get it While you Can: Dis/locating Subjectivity in Busted Flat in Baton Rouge
Pop Culture Princess
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies: A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
The highly competitive quest for a tenure-track position in performance studies puts junior faculty in high-stakes situations. This narrative essay is the first in a three-part story about Barbie and The Martha—two graduate school friends who are navigating the tenuous waters of their first full-time teaching positions. The author employs self-referential academic humor to explore the challenges new faculty face in securing and maintaining their …
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies Part II: Graduate School Flashback—A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
Part II of the continuing saga of junior faculty follows Barbie into a flashback at the end of her graduate school career and the beginning of her search for an academic home
Queer Longing, Queer Failure: A Performative Lecture on Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
This essay argues that performative lecture functions as a hybrid form allowing for the presentation of historical research with artistic license. As an example, I offer a performative lecture on Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842–1932), a Quaker abolitionist, playwright, lyceum lecturer, and actor. Looking critically and nostalgically at Dickinson's life, the project accounts for her queer failure by exploring the ephemerality of artistic success. P…
Coming (Back) to Performance Studies Part III: Be Careful What You Wish For—A Slightly Fictionalized Ethnographic Narrative (in Three Parts)
Part three of this series finds junior faculty The Assistant Professor Formerly Known As Barbie musing the accomplishment of finally having a tenure-track teaching position
The Dangerous Real: Queer Solo Performance in/as Active Disruption
Like all radical community endeavours, queer performance in the United States has been shaped through resistance to restrictive ideologies. National insecurity over ‘indecent’ (read: queer) artistic expression in the US has been aimed at artists working in a variety of genres, and here I focus specifically on queer solo performance artists. This essay explores the dangerous realities that queer artists present to an imagined unified US national i…
The Sex that God Can’t See: Heteronormativity, Whiteness, and the Erasure of Queer Desire in Popular Media
Research Article| June 01 2017 The Sex that God Can’t See: Heteronormativity, Whiteness, and the Erasure of Queer Desire in Popular Media Elizabeth Whitney Elizabeth Whitney Elizabeth Whitney is an assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in the City University of New York. During the 2015–2016 academic year she was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Medi…
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