Join us at Imperial College London on Wednesday 14 October for a book talk with Dr Monalesia Earle, author of Writing Queer Women of Color: Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives (McFarland & Company Publishers, 2019).
Using the hybrid form of graphic narratives/comics, the methodological framework of ‘misdirection’, and the textual richness of literary fiction as a semiotic bridge to generate new conversations about race, gender, queer identity and trauma, Dr Earle discusses how the historical misrepresentation, and under-representation of queer women of color in literature and comics, can be more creatively challenged.
Dr Earle grew up in Brooklyn, New York and has since lived in many parts of the world. She moved to the UK in 2004, studied at Birkbeck, University of London, where she received an MA in Gender Studies and a PhD in English and Humanities. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Social Work from the University of Alaska, and a graduate degree in Social Work from Columbia University, New York. Dr Earle is an independent researcher currently living in Liverpool.