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 this semester with Dr. Marlon Moore, Associate Profes​sor of English with an affiliation in the Detroit Center for Black Studies. Dr. Moore teaches and writes about spirituality in African American literary and popular culture of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with special focus on Black LGBTQ representation in pop culture and disability studies. Her book, In the Life and In the Spirit: Homoerotic Spirituality in African American Literature, was runner-up for the SUNY Press First Book Prize in queer studies. Her research has appeared in several journals and essay collections, including “Souls,” “Medical Humanities,” “Fat Studies,” “African American Review,” “Black Camera,” and “Sexuality and the Sacred” (edited by Hutchins and Williams). For this talk, Dr. Moore will share from her experience writing "'Big Luther' Discourse: Cultural Longing and the Signification of Luther Vandross in African American Popular Culture."

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.