Please join the Center for Gender and Sexuality for our next session of Behind the Publication, a behind-the-scenes workshop series on faculty research in gender and sexuality.

The series continues with Dr. Peter Marra, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program. Dr. Marra's first book, Queer Slashers, presents the first book-length study of how and why the slasher subgenre of horror films appeals to queer audiences. In it, Dr. Marra constructs a reparative history of the slasher that affirms its queer lineage extending back as early as the 1920s and forges an unlikely kinship between queer audiences and these retrograde depictions of queer killers. This talk is entitled “In A Disorderly Fashion: Disability in the Writing Process.”

After Dr. Marra's talk, we will have a reception to celebrate the publication of Queer Slashers (out in February). 

About the series: The central goal of this series is to offer graduate and undergraduate students a series of informal workshops where faculty encourage and demystify research by sharing their own experiences. We invite WSU faculty members to share a little about the genesis of their current or recent research. We ask them to discuss the joys and frustrations of the project; to elaborate on the decisions around the scope of the work; to assess methodological questions; to discuss writing practices; to highlight the importance of colleagues, librarians, friends, and other interlocutors more generally for their work; and to offer tips and strategies to help students through their own projects.