drupagliassotti @ July 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I’ll be going to Anime Expo tomorrow (Friday) to participate in the Anime and Manga Research Circle panel at noon. I’d love to talk to other BL or m/m romance researchers, writers, and/or fans! Or, heck, we can talk steampunk or horror, too … don’t hesitate to drop by and say hello!
drupagliassotti @ May 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Scholars and fans interested in steampunk’s relationship to sociology, history, ethics, critical theory, postcolonialism, literary theory, and similar ideological standpoints and scholarly fields should check out The Great Steampunk Debate forums, running through June 30!
drupagliassotti @ May 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Yay — I just received a box of Boys’ Love Manga from the publisher! The official publication launch is August 2010, but I understand you can buy it now through Amazon.Com (although it’s listed as temporarily out of stock as of this posting); you can also order it directly from the publisher, McFarland & Company. [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday the New York Times published “Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away” about Skin Tight USA at the Stonewall Inn in West Village. The Skin Tight party — in which the costumes range from the familiar (like Spider-Man) to ones that only a comics geek would recognize (like the 1993 version [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
…And in a completely unrelated new project, I’m now blogging over at Imagining Venice, a new site set up for the art/communication travel course Professor Terry Spehar-Fahey and I will be teaching at California Lutheran University in Spring 2011 and, we hope, every two years thereafter. The blog will address course development, execution, and modification [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 25, 2010 # One Comment
The International Workshop on BL (Boys Love) Studies Glocal Polemics of ‘BL’ (Boys Love): Production, Circulation, and Censorship (download pdf for this call) Place: Oita University (Japan, Oita city near Fukuoka) Date: 22nd & 23rd January 2011 The genre of male homosexual narratives written by and for women, commonly called ‘BL’ (Boys’ Love), has recently [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 16, 2010 # 2 Comments
Many types of speech may be considered offensive and unpleasant. I’ve addressed two such types recently — virtual child pornography and VictOrientalism — reluctantly defending the first while critiquing the other. Does that seem counterintuitive? While I believe it’s important to object — preferably calmly and rationally — to those types of speech that one [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet
The sentence came down last week in the closely watched (at least among comic/manga/anime fans and scholars) Christopher Handley case — six months in a federal prison for “possession of obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children” and three years of supervised release during which time he is required to be under treatment [...]
drupagliassotti @ February 1, 2010 # 2 Comments
Last April I mentioned that I’d been introduced to the term “girlfag” by German scholar Uli Meyer, who ended up contributing a chapter to our Boys’ Love Manga academic collection. I wrote that the concept intrigued me and seemed potentially relevant to slash and BL fans. However, I’d had a hard time finding anything out [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Mark McLelland, an Australian professor whose name is well-known to boys’ love scholars and fans, has written a guest article about the new Australian internet-filter law at fandom researcher Henry Jenkin’s blog, Confessions of an Aca/Fan. Check out McLelland’s article “Will New Law Block Many Slash, Anima, Manga Sites in Australia?” for a criticism of [...]