BOOKS
QUEER TROUBLEMAKERS: THE POETICS OF FLIPPANCY
Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.
THE FEMINIST FOURTH WAVE: AFFECTIVE TEMPORALITY
This book examines the fourth wave of feminism within the United Kingdom. Focusing on examples of contemporary activism it considers the importance of understanding affect and temporality in relation to surges of feminist activity. Examining the wave’s historical use in the feminist movement, the book redefines the symbol in an attempt to overcome difficulties of generations, identities and divisions. The author contends that feminism must develop its own methods for time keeping, in which past activism and future aspirations touch on the present moment. Through this unique temporality, she continues, feminism can make space for affective ties to create intense moments of activism, in which surges of feeling catalyse and sustain mass action. This thought-provoking book, with its exploration of the relationship between feeling, the personal and political, will appeal to students and academics working in the fields of gender studies, feminism and affect studies.
ARTICLES
Refereed Journal Articles
‘Every Lover is a Destroyer’ Queer Abuse and Experimental Memoir in Melissa Febos’ Abandon Me and Carmen Maria Machado’s In The Dream House’ in ‘Struggle & Hustle: Queer Nonfiction Prose’ in Prose Studies
Co-authored with Elizabeth Evans, ‘The Problems with Feminist Nostalgia: Intersectionality and White Popular Feminism’ in European Journal of Women's Studies, ISSN 1350-5068
‘Affective Temporality: Towards a Fourth Wave’ in Gender and Education: If Not Now, When? Feminism in contemporary activist, social and educational contexts, Taylor and Francis
Co-authored with Elizabeth Evans, ‘Critical Waves: Exploring Identity, Discourse and Praxis in Western Feminism’ in Social Movement Studies: New Feminisms in Europe, Taylor and Francis
Chapters in Books
‘Gay and Lesbian Poetry’ in A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 (eds.) Wolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm (Wiley, 2020)
‘Inheriting Irony and the Development of Flippancy’ in Feminism, Influence, Inheritance: New Essays in English Studies (eds.) Emily Hogg and Clara Jones (Palgrave, 2015).
‘Adapting Titus Groan: Creating The ‘Sublime Character’ Through Creative Writing’ in Miracle Enough: papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).
Invited Reviews
‘Eileen Myles, I must be living twice’ in Poetry Review (2017)
‘Ian Heames ‘Out of Villon’’ in HIX EROS (2016)
‘The Argonauts: A Book Review’ in Culture Matters (2 June 2016)
‘Nick Laird: Go Giants’ in The Shearsman Review (16 March 2014).