BGLTQ+ Lit Talks and Writing Workshop with Author Jack Parlett

Please join WGS for two talks by Jack Parlett (Oxford University), author of The Poetics of Cruising: From Whitman to Grindr (University of Minnesota, 2022) and Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise (Granta Books and Hanover Square Press, May 2022). Parlett will also offer a Queer Writing Workshop for interested students. 

The Trans Poetics of Eileen Myles
Wednesday, February 23, 12:00-1:15 pm EST Join here. 

Queer Writing Workshop (open to all students) 
Wednesday, February 23   3:00-5:00pm EST Join here. 

Cruising and Community in the Poems of Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, and Jericho Brown 
Thursday, February 24, 10:30-11:45 am EST  Join here. 

Jack Parlett is a writer and literary scholar specializing in queer studies and American literature. Having completed a PhD at Cambridge University in 2019, he is now a Junior Research Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, where he also teaches literary theory and modern American literature. His The Poetics of Cruising: From Whitman to Grindr, based on his doctoral research, is being published this month. Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise, a cultural and literary history of the bohemian and queer resort, will be published this June. He published his debut poetry book same blue, different you in August of 2020. 

His poems have appeared in Hotel, Blackbox Manifold (co-written with Anne Stillman as ‘Otto & Gisel’), Visual Verse and the BFI Flare LGBTQ+ Film Festival zine. His reviews and essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Poetry London, SPAM zine, Burlington Magazine, the Cambridge Humanities Review and Dazed and Confused.   

When not writing or teaching he works freelance in events production for 5x15, a London-based events company, and Sayers & Doers, in New York. He is currently working on two projects: a book about flamboyance as a queer concept and practice, and a study of the relationship between Harlem Renaissance literature and travel writing. More information and links to his work can be found at jackparlett.com.

Generously supported by the Regan Fund, the Program in General Education, and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.