The(e)ories: Critical Theory & Sexuality Studies

Welcome to The(e)ories: Critical Theory & Sexuality Studies

The(e)ories: Critical Theory and Sexuality Studies brings together academics, activists, artists and members of the LGBT community and anyone else who is interested in critical theory and sexuality studies in order to ensure the continued growth and relevance of queer theory, as well as trying to avoid the destructive wedges often driven between queer theory and queer activism, queer theory and LGBT Studies, and queer theory and feminism.

This site takes its name from The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research, a seminar series convened by Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke since 2002.

This site is devoted to documenting work on critical theory and sexuality studies in Ireland. The site features information about a wide range of conferences, seminars, symposia, roundtable discussions and publications on queer theory, LGBT Studies and feminism.

This site contains further details about the Queer Interventions book series at Ashgate Press, which publishes innovative and theoretically-engaged monographs and collections of essays.

This site also features information about the Cultural Connections: Key Thinkers and Queer Theory book series at the University of Wales Press, which publishes monographs that analyse the theoretical output of various influential figures in critical theory, philosophy and identity studies which productively intersects with, underpins and is informed by queer theory.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Noreen Giffney noreen.giffney@gmail.com

Michael O'Rourke tranquilised_icon@yahoo.com

Love, Sex, Intimacy & Friendship Between Men

M. O'Rourke & K. O'Donnell (Palgrave, 2003; 2007)

Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800

M. O'Rourke & K. O'Donnell (Palgrave 2006)

Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies

N. Giffney & K. O'Donnell (Harrington Park Press, 2007)

2 Double Issues of The Journal of Lesbian Studies

N. Giffney & K. O'Donnell (Haworth, 2007)

Queering the Non/Human

N. Giffney & M.J. Hird (Ashgate 2008)

Queer Theory

N. Giffney (Berg, 2009)

News

Next The(e)ories Seminar

Reading Bracha L. Ettinger's The Matrixial Borderspace, a 2-day international, interdisciplinary seminar on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April 2009. This seminar is devoted to responding to Bracha Ettinger's The Matrixial Borderspace (University of Minnesota Press 2006) from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives: psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual culture, film studies, feminism and queer theory. Professor Ettinger will participate in this seminar and deliver a plenary lecture on her current work.

New Critical Theory/ Cultural Studies Book Series at the University of Wales Press
Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke are the editors of Cultural Connections: Key Thinkers and Queer Theory, a new critical theory/cultural studies book series at the University of Wales Press (distributed by the University of Chicago Press in the USA). See the 'Cultural Connections' page on this website for further details of books in the series and details of how to submit a proposal.

New Queer Theory Book Series at Ashgate Press
Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke are the editors of Queer Interventions, a new queer studies book series at Ashgate Press. See the 'Queer Interventions' page on this website for further details of books in the series and details of how to submit a proposal.

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies
Noreen Giffney is the Humanities Book Review Editor for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Duke University Press).

New Centre for Studying Sexuality & Gender @ Uni of Exeter

Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke are Research Affiliates in the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe at the University of Exeter. Further details at www.sall.ex.ac.uk/centres/cissge/

Queer(y)ing Psychology Collective
Noreen Giffney & Michael O'Rourke are members of the Queer(y)ing Psychology Collective, a group of health professionals and cultural theorists who meet during the year at the Open University, Milton Keynes. Further details at http://www.queeryingpsychology.org.uk/

New Queer Theory Articles

Noreen Giffney and Michael O'Rourke, 'The "E(ve)" in The(e)ories: dreamreading Sedgwick in retrospective time' in Irish Feminist Review, 3 (2007).

Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird, 'Queering the non/human' in Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (eds.), Queering the Non/Human (Ashgate, 2008).

Michael O'Rourke, 'The roguish future of queer studies' in Journal of Queer Studies in Finland, 2 (2006).

Noreen Giffney, 'Quare theory' in Wanda Balzano, Anne Mulhall & Moynagh Sullivan (eds.), Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); a revised version of this essay appears in English, French and Dutch in Avonden van Sophia/Soirees de Sophia (2008).

Michael O'Rourke, 'What's so queer about the queer theory to-come?' (in Portugese) in Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais (Critical Journal of Social Sciences) (2006).

Noreen Giffney, 'Queer apocal(o)ptic/ism: the death drive and the Human' in Noreen Giffney & Myra J. Hird (eds.), Queering the Non/Human (Ashgate, 2008).

Michael O'Rourke, 'Introduction: siting queer masculinities' in Katherine O'Donnell and Michael O'Rourke (eds.), Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same/Sex Desire in the Early Modern World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Noreen Giffney, 'Quare Eire' in The Journal of Lesbian Studies, 11, nos. 3-4 (2007).

Noreen Giffney, '"And they lived ugly ever after": the new queer cartoon' in Noreen Giffney and Michael O'Rourke (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Ashgate, 2008).

Copies available from the authors.

Current Projects

Michael is editing a collection of essays entitled Derrida and Queer Theory, which is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. Noreen is editing a collection of essays entitled The Lesbian Premodern with Diane Watt and Michelle M. Sauer.

Upcoming Talks

Noreen Giffney, 'Quare The(e)ories', at the Queer in Europe Conference at the University of Exeter in September 2008.

Noreen Giffney and Myra Hird will talk about the publication of their book, Queering the Non/Human (Ashgate 2008) as part of a three-day intensive seminar entitled 'The Persistence of Identity' in Amsterdam in October 2008.

Noreen Giffney
E-Mail: noreen.giffney@gmail.com

Michael O'Rourke
E-Mail: tranquilised_icon@yahoo.com

The(e)ories: Critical Theory & Sexuality Studies
Contact: noreen.giffney@gmail.com & tranquilised_icon@yahoo.com