Jon Heggestad
Biographic Data
| ID | 6364257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Heggestad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Heggestad |
| SIGNATURE | HEGGESTAD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davidson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2376-7947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The long recovery from gay conversion therapy in Fair Haven and I Am Michael
When it comes to queer cinema, films about conversion therapy are a genre unto themselves. A number of conventions have been produced through these works, one of the most evident being narrative structures that offer brief denouements following the departure from conversion therapy camps and facilities. Interrogating these conventions, this article ultimately examines two exceptions in the form of Fair Haven and I Am Michael , both of which addre…
Revisiting Queer and Trans Representation in Junior
The 1994 film Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the world's first pregnant man, has been the subject of much scholarly debate since its initial release. Specifically, feminist critiques have both called attention to the film's androcentric usurpation of reproduction and lauded its break from more traditional and gendered forms of this labor. The following analysis of Junior and its reception builds on this critical fem…
Pregnant Teen Wolf
Despite its reputation as a controversial fan fiction trope, mpreg (short for male pregnancy) provides new opportunities for narratives centered around reproduction and family-making, especially queer family-making. This phenomenon is perhaps best seen in the fan fiction for the MTV series Teen Wolf, which aired from 2011 to 2017. Within these works, mpreg expands whom male pregnancy is able to represent. As these new opportunities for representa…
On Frankenstein and How (Not) to Be a Queer Parent
Reflecting on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) nearly two centuries after its original publication, Ernest Larsen observes that Shelley ‘opened the lid on a new way of thinking about pregnancy – the narrative in which a male gives birth to a monster’ (236). And while we might regard such a narrative as inherently queer, the queerness of Victor Frankenstein’s methods for cultivating life are rarely explored. This article aims to remedy this gap …
Paranoid viewers and the ‘already knowing’ of YouTube’s coming out genre
While viewing LGBTQ+ coming out narratives within speech act theory is certainly nothing new, social media platforms (and YouTube, specifically) have created new opportunities for enacting these performances. Drawing on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s method of paranoid reading, this article highlights the relationship between LGBTQ+ YouTubers, the coming out narratives they produce and their viewers’ engagement. After looking to YouTube as a platform fr…
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Paranoid viewers and the ‘already knowing’ of YouTube’s coming out genre
While viewing LGBTQ+ coming out narratives within speech act theory is certainly nothing new, social media platforms (and YouTube, specifically) have created new opportunities for enacting these performances. Drawing on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s method of paranoid reading, this article highlights the relationship between LGBTQ+ YouTubers, the coming out narratives they produce and their viewers’ engagement. After looking to YouTube as a platform fr…
Pregnant Teen Wolf
Despite its reputation as a controversial fan fiction trope, mpreg (short for male pregnancy) provides new opportunities for narratives centered around reproduction and family-making, especially queer family-making. This phenomenon is perhaps best seen in the fan fiction for the MTV series Teen Wolf, which aired from 2011 to 2017. Within these works, mpreg expands whom male pregnancy is able to represent. As these new opportunities for representa…
On Frankenstein and How (Not) to Be a Queer Parent
Reflecting on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) nearly two centuries after its original publication, Ernest Larsen observes that Shelley ‘opened the lid on a new way of thinking about pregnancy – the narrative in which a male gives birth to a monster’ (236). And while we might regard such a narrative as inherently queer, the queerness of Victor Frankenstein’s methods for cultivating life are rarely explored. This article aims to remedy this gap …
Revisiting Queer and Trans Representation in Junior
The 1994 film Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the world's first pregnant man, has been the subject of much scholarly debate since its initial release. Specifically, feminist critiques have both called attention to the film's androcentric usurpation of reproduction and lauded its break from more traditional and gendered forms of this labor. The following analysis of Junior and its reception builds on this critical fem…
The long recovery from gay conversion therapy in Fair Haven and I Am Michael
When it comes to queer cinema, films about conversion therapy are a genre unto themselves. A number of conventions have been produced through these works, one of the most evident being narrative structures that offer brief denouements following the departure from conversion therapy camps and facilities. Interrogating these conventions, this article ultimately examines two exceptions in the form of Fair Haven and I Am Michael , both of which addre…
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