Readings


 * Alexander, Jonathan. //Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies//. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2008.
 * Alexander, Jonathan, and David Wallace. "The Queer Turn in Composition Studies: Reviewing and Assessing an Emerging Scholarship." //College Composition & Communication// 61.1 (Sept 2009): 300-320.
 * Antle, Martine, and Dominique Fisher, eds.//The Rhetoric of the Other: Lesbian and Gay Strategies of Resistance in French and Francophone Contexts//. New Orleans: UP of the South, 2002.
 * Gil-Gómez, Ellen M. //Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities//. New York: Routledge, 2000.
 * McRuer, Robert. //Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability.// New York: NYU P, 2006.
 * Ridinger, Robert B., ed. //Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay & Lesbian Rights (1892-2000)//. Binghamton: Haworth, 2004.


 * Alexander, Jonathan. "[|Queer Pedagogy: Critical Multiculturalism Must Avoid 'The Flattening Effect] .'"
 * Alexander, Jonathan, Barclay Barrios, Samantha Blackmon, Angela Crow, Keith Dorwick, Jacqueline Rhodes, and Randal Woodland. "[|Queerness, sexuality, technology, and writing: How do queers write ourselves when we write in cyberspace] ?"  //Computers & Composition Online// Special Issue on Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies (Fall 2004).
 * Alexander, Jonathan, and Jacqueline Rhodes. "[|Queer Intellectual Work] ." Video of presentation at Conference on College Composition & Communication, New Orleans, LA. March 2008.
 * Asbell, Angela (Madame Chaos). "[|The Birth of Bitch King: Zine of the Vulva-lution] !" //Computers & Composition Online// Special Issue on Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies (Fall 2004).
 * Banks, William P. "[|The Values of Queer Jacketing: What Happens When Student Writers Go Gay?] " //Meatjourn////al.com// 1.2 (Winter 2005).
 * Barrios, Barclay. "[|Boi's Story.] " //Meatjournal.com// 1.1 (Spring 2005).
 * Buckley, Cara. "[|The Liminal Rhetorical Space of the Fag Hag: Bridging Rhetoric and Queer Theory within 'Sex & the City] '" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. 20 Nov 2008. Accessed 15 Oct 2009.
 * Chinn, Sarah. "A Talk with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick." //Pre-Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory// 13.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1992): 79-95.
 * College English Special Issue on Lesbian and Gay Studies/Queer Pedagogies 65:1 (Sept. 2002).
 * //Computers & Composition Online// [|Special Issue on Sexualities, Techologies, and Literacies] (Fall 2004).
 * Cox, Matt and Travis Webster. [|Queering the Conference on College Composition and Communication]. Accessed 15 Oct 2009.
 * Fox, Catherine. "Texts of Our Institutional Lives: From Transaction to Transformation: (En)Countering White Heteronormativity in 'Safe Spaces.'" //College English// 69.5 (May 2007): 496-511. (Only by individual or library subscription only)
 * Gil-Gómez, Ellen M. "'[|The Other White Meat': An Interview with Erica Lopez (Part 1)] ." //Meatjournal.com// 1.1 (Spring 2005).
 * ---. "[|'The Other White Meat': Conversations with Erica Lopez (Part 2)] ." //Meatjournal.com// 1.2 (Winter 2005).
 * Gorkemli, Serkan. "[|Contending Cartographies of Rhetoric: Mapping Legato (Project) and the Turkish Queer College Students’ 'Coming to Rhetoric' Through the Internet] //." Computers & Composition Online// Special Issue on Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies (Fall 2004).
 * Gross, Kimberly. and Goldman, Seth. "[|Framing Hate: A Comparison of Media Coverage of Anti-Gay Hate Crime in the Washington Post and Washington Blade] ." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. 27 Aug 2003. Accessed 15 Oct 2009.
 * Houle, Brian R., Alex P. Kimball, and Heidi A. McKee. "'[|Boy? Girl? You Decide.' Multimodal Web Composition and a Mythography of Identity] ." //Computers & Composition Online// Special Issue on Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies (Fall 2004).
 * Ilyasova, K. Alex. "[|Dykes on Bikes and the Regulation of Vulgarity] ." //International Journal of Motorcycle Studies// 2 (2006).
 * Jarratt, Susan. "Where is the Rub with 'Diversity,' Right now?" //CCCC Blog//. 30 July 2009. Web. Accessed 7 November 2009.
 * Jarraway, David R. "[|Tales of the City: Marginality, Community, and the Problem of (Gay) Identity in Wallace Thurman's "Harlem" Fiction]." College English 65:1 (Sept. 2002): 36-52.
 * Justice, Clifton. "[|Untitled: A Literacy Narrative.] " //Meatjournal.com// 2.1 (Summer 2006).
 * Kopelson, Karen. "'Dis/Integrating the Gay/Queer Binary: "Reconstructed Identity Politics' for a Performative Pedagogy." College English 65:1 (Sept. 2002): 17-35.
 * ---. "Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning; Or, the Performance of Neutrality (Re)Considered as a Composition Pedagogy for Student Resistance." College Composition and Communication 55.1 (Sept. 2003): 115-146.
 * Larkin, Lindsey, and Marshall Kitchens. "[|The Transgendered & Transgressive Student: Rhetoric & Identity in Trans-Queer Ethnography] ." //Computers & Composition Online// Special Issue on Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies (Fall 2004).
 * Peele, Thomas. "[|Composition Studies, Heteronormativity, and Popular Culture] ." //Computers & Composition Online// Special Issue on Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies (Fall 2004).
 * Pritchard, Eric Darnell. "Pathways to Diversity: Social Justice and the Multiplicity of Identities." //CCCC Blog//. 4 December 2008. Web. Accessed 7 November 2009.
 * Rallin, Aneil. "[|A Provocation: Queer is Not a Substitute for Gay/Lesbian] ." //Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion// 1 (2008).
 * Rhodes, Jacqueline. "[|Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies: Metonymy and Material Online] ." Introduction to //Computers & Composition Online// Special Issue on Sexualities, Technologies, and Literacies (Fall 2004).
 * Schneider, Jeffrey L. "Secret Sins of the Orient: Creating a (Homo)Textual Context for Reading Byron's //The Giaour//." College English:65:1 (Sept. 2002): 81-95.
 * Spurlin, William J. "Theorizing Queer Pedagogy in English Studies after the 1990s." College English:65:1 (Sept. 2002): 9-16.
 * Wallace, David L. "Out in the Academy: Heterosexism, Invisibility, and Double Consciousness." College English:65:1 (Sept. 2002): 53-66.
 * Zeikowitz, Richard E. "Befriending the Medieval Queer: A Pedagogy for Literature Classes." College English:65:1 (Sept. 2002): 67-80.

Doctoral Dissertations
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 * Bauer, Danny Alan. //Negotiating Cultural and Social Barriers Through Confrontation: The Textual Force of Liberation Theology and AIDS Rhetoric (Immune Deficiency, Gay Literature, Poverty)// . Diss. New Mexico State U, 1997.
 * Blackburn, Mollie Virginia. //Reading and Writing for Social Change: Exploring Literacy Performances and Identity Work with Queer Youth //. Diss. U of Penn, 2001.
 * Comstock, Michelle Robin. //Re-Mapping the Territory of "Youth": Youth-Generated Sites of Rhetorical, Cultural, and Political Practice //. Diss. Purdue U, 1999.
 * Cruz, Cynthia. //Testimonial Narratives of Queer Street Youth: Toward an Epistemology of a Brown Body //. Diss. U of California-Los Angeles, 2006.
 * Digrazia, Jennifer. //Style, Substance, Audience: A Qualitative Study of the Use of a Queer Text in Three Composition Courses //. Diss. U Mass Amherst, 2005.
 * Driskill, Qwo-Li. //Yelesalehe Hiwayona Dikanohogida Naiwodusv/ God Taught Me This Song, It is Beautiful: Cherokee Performance Rhetorics as Decolonization, Healing, and Continuance//. Diss. Michigan State U, 2008.
 * Falc, Emilie Oline. //An Analysis and Critique of the Vernacular Discourse in Selected Feminist Science Fiction Novels (Octavia Butler, C. J. Cherryh, Vonda McIntyre, Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)//. Diss. The Ohio State U, 1997.
 * Friedling, Melissa Pearl. //Recovering Bodies: Rhetoric, Feminisms, and Addiction (Recovery, Drew Barrymore, Jewish Women, Orlan, France, Nan Goldin)//. Diss. U of Iowa, 1997.
 * Gardener, Mary Penelope. //Weaving a Female Symbolic: Autobiography, a Method of Scholarship //. Diss. Michigan State U, 2002.
 * Grindstaff, Davin. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rhetorical secrets: A Genealogy of Gay Male Identity in Twentieth-Century America //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Diss. Penn State U, 2000.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gunter, Kimberly K. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Queering Composition and Identity: Moving Beyond Inclusion in Composition Classrooms and the Field //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Diss. U of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, 2001.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ilyasova, Ksenia Alex. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writing, Identity, and Practice: The Role of Sexual Identity in the Composition Classroom //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Diss. Michigan Tech, 2007.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kopelson, Karen. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teaching Trouble. Performativity and Composition Pedagogy: Composing Connections //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Diss. Purdue U, 2002.
 * Lewis, Brian Charles. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">LGBT Student Negotiations of Academic Literacies: The Building of Disciplinary and Campus Literacy Communities //. Diss. Michigan State U, 2004.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Malinowitz, Harriet. //Lesbian and Gay Reality and the Writing Class (Rhetoric).// Diss. New York U, 1993.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">McKenzie, Charles B. Jr. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maverick Ethos: The Principles and Practice of Postidentification Rhetoric //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> . Diss. U of Arizona, 2006.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mitchell, Danielle. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Composing Containment: Incorporating the Queer into Professional and Cultural Rhetoric //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Diss. U of Arizona, 2003.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Peele, Thomas B. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Queer Commentaries: Subjectivity, Sexuality, and Writing //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Diss. U of South Florida, 2002.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pauliny, Tara Suzanne. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I am Your King": A Theorization of Rhetorical Female-to-Male Drag //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Diss. The Ohio State U, 2002.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pritchard, Eric Darnell. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Litany for Survival": Black Queer Literacies //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Diss. U of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rallin, Aneil. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Rhetoric(s) of Rupture (Writing Pedagogy, Queer Theory). //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Diss. The Ohio State U, 1999.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Slagle, Ray Anthony. //(Re)conceptualizing the Role of Identity in Rhetoric: Queer Theory and Communication Studies.// Diss. The Ohio State U, 1998.
 * <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Spicer, Gregory Allen. //"Victims of Desire" and Other Fragments Toward a Genealogy of the Sexual Subject: Rethinking the Ethos of Gay Liberation Discourse within the Rhetoric of Homo/Heterosexual Distinction//. Diss. U of Pittsburgh, 1997.
 * West, Isaac. <span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Legal Trans/scripts: Transgender Rhetorics of Law and Everyday Life//. Diss. Indiana U, 2008.

Masters' Theses

 * Adsanatham, Chanon. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Homosexuality, Rhetorics, Homophobia: A Postmodern Rhetorical Study //. Thesis. U of Colorado at Denver, 2008.
 * Booth, Ewan Tristan. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enacting a Dual Rhetorical Strategy: Communicating Transsexual Gay Male Identity //. Thesis. Arizona State U, 2007.
 * Duncan, Travis W. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Silent Outsiders: Searching for Queer Identity in Composition Readers //. Thesis. U of Central Florida, 2006.
 * Fitzgerald, Brandon B. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stylistic Configurations of the Gay Bishop Controversy in the Anglican Communion //. Thesis. U of Colorado at Boulder, 2006.
 * Johnson, Kevin A. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Rhetorical Functions of Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage: A Burkean Associational Cluster Analysis of Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Arguments in Popular Discourse //. Thesis. California State U-Long Beach, 2002.
 * Rearick, Katherine Tilllotson. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluation of a Code-Switching Composition Curriculum for Students who Speak African American Vernacular English //. Thesis. U of Houston-Clearlake, 2008.
 * Rodriquez, Tiffany Sarkisian. //<span style="font-family: Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Rhetoric of the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori: Rhetoric of Reconciliation //. Thesis. California State U-Fresno, 2008.

Off-Site Bibliographies
Flood, Michael, ed. [|The Men's Bibliography: Comprehensive Bibliography of Writing on Men, Masculinities, Gender, and Sexualities]. Howard, Rebecca Moore. [|Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered language, discourses, and rhetorics: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric]. Ward, Gregory. [|Studies on LGBTQ Language: A Partial Bibliography] (2006).