Exhibit,
reading and performance by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (Latina/o Studies, AC,
Romance Languages) and Mary Beth Carolan (MFA candidate, School of Art and
Design):
The
GL/Q Caucus of the MLA invites nominations for each of our three annual awards:
THE
MICHAEL LYNCH SERVICE AWARD
This
award serves not only to honor a GLBT academic activist every year, but also,
in Eve Sedgwick's words, "to publicize and celebrate—and as widely as
possible—the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer activism by
academics." Michael Lynch wanted to honor those whose activism is academic
in context but not limited to work for the Caucus or Division. This activism
might consist of activities including (but not limited to) direct service to,
or administrative advocacy on behalf of, LGBTQ students; action that results in
non-discrimination clauses in contracts; working to establish domestic partner
benefits, awareness of transgender issues in housing and health services, or
other LGBT-friendly campus policies; facilitating connections between campus
and LGBT community activists; or other forms of campus, public, or media
activism. Lynch also wanted the award to offer a way that, in Eve Sedgwick's
words, "the achievements and struggles of each of the generations of
lesbian/gay scholars who are currently active could become more visible to the
others."
Nominations
for this award, including a summary of the nominee’s qualifications, may be
submitted to Committee Chair Scarlet Bowen at Scarlet.Bowen@Colorado.EDU
no
later than November 1, 2011.
THE
ALAN BRAY MEMORIAL BOOK AWARD
Named
in honor of a scholar whose two landmark books have been profoundly influential
in gay and lesbian studies, the Bray Award will be given to the best book in
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer studies in literature and
cultural studies, all broadly construed.
Eligibility:
all books must bear a 2010 copyright date.
Deadline:
all books must be received by November 1, 2011.
To
nominate your own book, contact your editor and have him or her email Committee
Chair Richard T. Rodriguez at rtrodrig@illinois.edu
To
nominate someone else's book, contact the author with this info (or, if
necessary, email the nomination to Richard T. Rodriguez). Direct contact from an editor is
preferred.
THE CROMPTON-NOLL AWARD
The
Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, queer studies in the modern
languages/literatures pays tribute to Louis Crompton, who passed away in 2009,
and Dolores Noll (Kent State University), two early scholar/activists who
helped found the gay and lesbian caucus of the MLA. The award recognizes the
important work of lesbian, gay, and queer studies in the modern languages and
the history that has helped make this current work possible.
Essays
published between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011 may be submitted by email
attachment to Committee Chair Kenneth B. Kidd at kbkidd@ufl.edu no later than
November 1, 2011.
PLEASE
CIRCULATE WIDELY.
Winners
will be announced at the GL/Q Caucus cash bar during the MLA Convention in
Seattle.
Soy un escritor, académico, y performancero puertorriqueño. He publicado: Uñas pintadas de azul (2009), Queer Ricans (2009) y Abolición del pato (2013).
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (also known as Lola von Miramar) is a Puerto Rican writer, performer, and scholar. He received his AB from Harvard (1991) & PhD from Columbia (1999). He teaches at the Univ. of Michigan, where he specializes in LGBT Latina/o studies. He is author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009), & of two books of short stories: Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, Arizona, 2009) and Abolición del pato (Terranova Editores, 2013). He co-edited a special issue of CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies on Puerto Rican Queer Sexualities (2007). He performs as Lola von Miramar since 2010, when he first appeared in the Feast of Fun's "Cooking With Drag Queens: How to Make Tostones" video.
