Meredith Heller
Biographic Data
| ID | 6558917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meredith Heller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Heller |
| SIGNATURE | HELLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Arizona University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6528-7557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queering Drag
The “camptopia” experience
This article examines how media representations construct a positive vision of “camptopias”: our term for alternative sleepaway camps for youth with culturally marginalized identities (disabilities, queer sexualities or genders, minority religions/ethnicities, etc.). Because camp experience is temporary and geographically rooted, most people will learn about the work of camptopias via media representations. Our multimodal textual analysis highlig…
Feeling normal
Feeling normal: sexuality and media criticism in the digital age." Feminist Media Studies, 18(6), pp. 1135–1136
RuPaul realness
This article investigates the semiotic phenomenon of “realness,” specifically its meaning and usage in the US ballroom scene versus popular media texts including RuPaul’s Drag Race and extending to entertainment and social media. Realness names a theatrical act wherein queer performers of Color mimic heteronormative esthetics. This term operates as a significant in-community discourse about marginalization and social injustice, as well as how que…
Female-Femmeing
It is common for female-identified individuals to perform feminine acts—what I term “female-femmeing”—at contemporary drag king and queer drag shows. Although some scholarship has acknowledged the presence of these acts, a woman’s onstage (and offstage) femininity is frequently considered nontransgressive, nonqueer, and not gender-bending. This article first interrogates why femininity is often presumed to mean social alignment, and then demonstr…
Is she he? Drag discourse and drag logic in online media reports of gender variance
This article investigates online entertainment news, magazine, and gossip reports that use canonical terms and ideas attached to theatrical gender-bending—“drag discourses”—to identify gender variant bodies and expressions. Drag discourse pervades the coverage of female-identified menswear models Elliott Sailors and Casey Legler, and female-identified pop stars Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Knowles. I first investigate why media texts use drag as descrip…
Gender‐Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968–1980)
RuPaul realness
This article investigates the semiotic phenomenon of “realness,” specifically its meaning and usage in the US ballroom scene versus popular media texts including RuPaul’s Drag Race and extending to entertainment and social media. Realness names a theatrical act wherein queer performers of Color mimic heteronormative esthetics. This term operates as a significant in-community discourse about marginalization and social injustice, as well as how que…
Is she he? Drag discourse and drag logic in online media reports of gender variance
This article investigates online entertainment news, magazine, and gossip reports that use canonical terms and ideas attached to theatrical gender-bending—“drag discourses”—to identify gender variant bodies and expressions. Drag discourse pervades the coverage of female-identified menswear models Elliott Sailors and Casey Legler, and female-identified pop stars Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Knowles. I first investigate why media texts use drag as descrip…
Gender‐Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968–1980)
Female-Femmeing
It is common for female-identified individuals to perform feminine acts—what I term “female-femmeing”—at contemporary drag king and queer drag shows. Although some scholarship has acknowledged the presence of these acts, a woman’s onstage (and offstage) femininity is frequently considered nontransgressive, nonqueer, and not gender-bending. This article first interrogates why femininity is often presumed to mean social alignment, and then demonstr…
Is she he? Drag discourse and drag logic in online media reports of gender variance
This article investigates online entertainment news, magazine, and gossip reports that use canonical terms and ideas attached to theatrical gender-bending—“drag discourses”—to identify gender variant bodies and expressions. Drag discourse pervades the coverage of female-identified menswear models Elliott Sailors and Casey Legler, and female-identified pop stars Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Knowles. I first investigate why media texts use drag as descrip…
Feeling normal
Feeling normal: sexuality and media criticism in the digital age." Feminist Media Studies, 18(6), pp. 1135–1136
RuPaul realness
This article investigates the semiotic phenomenon of “realness,” specifically its meaning and usage in the US ballroom scene versus popular media texts including RuPaul’s Drag Race and extending to entertainment and social media. Realness names a theatrical act wherein queer performers of Color mimic heteronormative esthetics. This term operates as a significant in-community discourse about marginalization and social injustice, as well as how que…
The “camptopia” experience
This article examines how media representations construct a positive vision of “camptopias”: our term for alternative sleepaway camps for youth with culturally marginalized identities (disabilities, queer sexualities or genders, minority religions/ethnicities, etc.). Because camp experience is temporary and geographically rooted, most people will learn about the work of camptopias via media representations. Our multimodal textual analysis highlig…
Queering Drag
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)