Cynthia Barounis, PhD

PUBLICATIONS

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Refereed Journal Articles

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“Witches, Terrorists, and the Biopolitics of Camp.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 23.2/3 (Spring 2018).

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“‘Not the Usual Pattern’: James Baldwin, Homosexuality, and the DSM.”  Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 59.3,(Summer 2017).

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“Alison Bechdel and Crip-Feminist Autobiography.”  Journal of Modern Literature 39.4 (Summer 2016).

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“Special Affects: Mermaids, Prosthetics, and the Disabling of Feminine Futurity.”  WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 44:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2016).

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“‘Why So Serious?’: Cripping Camp Performance in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.”  Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 7.2 (2013).

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 “Cripping Heterosexuality, Queering Able-Bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body.”  Journal of Visual Culture 8.1 (2009).  [Reprinted in The Disability Studies Reader, Third and Fourth Editions.  Ed. Lennard Davis.  New York: Routledge, 2010, 2013.] 

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“‘Undisturbed By Colors’: Photorealism and Narrative Bioethics in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams.” Journal of Medical Humanities 30.1 (2009).

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"Reading Through Spectacle(s): Flannery O'Connor and the Politics of Drag." Flannery O'Connor Review 5 (Summer 2007).

 

Book Chapters and Invited Contributions

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“Survival Angst: Reading Hothead Paisan in the Trump Era.” The Journal of Lesbian Studies 22.4 (2018).

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“Teaching Fun Home as Disability Memoir.”  Approaches to Teaching Fun Home.  Ed. Judith Gardiner.  New York: MLA, 2018.   

 

 “Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual/Crip Resistance in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus.” Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives.  Eds. Karli June Cerankowski and Megan Milks.  New York: Routledge, 2014.

 

Book Reviews

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Rev. of Keywords for Disability Studies, edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin. symplokē 25: 1-2 (2017).

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Rev. of Acts of Conspicuous Compassion: Performance Culture and American Charity Practices.  Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 10.2 (2016).

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Rev. of Sex and Disability, edited by Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow.  symplokē 21.1 (2013).

 

Web-Based Publications

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"Redefining Toxic Masculinity in Trump's America." North Philly Notes (October 2019).

https://templepress.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/redefining-toxic-masculinity-in-trumps-america/

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"James Baldwin, Chelsea Manning, and Homonationalism." The Common Reader (September 2019).

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/james-baldwin-chelsea-manning-and-homonationalism/

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"Alison Bechdel and Primetime’s 'Mad' Women.”  Indiana University Press Blog (October 2017).

http://iupress.typepad.com/blog/2016/10/alison-bechdel-and-primetimes-mad-women-a-closer-look-at-jml-394.html

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“Queerness Meets Disability in Shortbus.” In Media Res (January 2011).

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2011/02/02/queerness-meets-disability-shortbus

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Poetry

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LIGHT SWEET CRUDE, chapbook co-written with Claire Leeds.  dancing girl press, 2011.

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