UPDATED: RuPedagogies of Realness: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Teaching and Learning

Lindsay Bryde Announcement
Location
Maryland, United States
Subject Fields
Cultural History / Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Race / Ethnic Studies, Sexuality Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies

This roundtable is a combined showcase of published work that began on a NeMLA panel and opportunity to extend the conversation from the original panel and publication to look at the increasingly global enterprise of RuPaul’s Drag Race and its pedagogical power. Across its chapters, RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul's Drag Race (McFarland 2021) tackles issues from heterotopia, pop-linguistics, philosophies of co-productive learning, and televised curricula to cultural appropriation, sports as pedagogy, stand-up as pedagogy, and even digital drag…right into the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to sharing the published work in RuPedagogies, we are seeking panelists who would like to engage in conversation and debate regarding their own RuPedagogies: what and how do we learn through the lens of the series? Inversely, although perhaps more importantly, what and how does the series teach us?

The conference is being held by the Northeast Modern Language Association and will take place on March 10-13th, 2022 in Baltimore Maryland.

Update: the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to Friday, October 15, 2021!

NeMLA uses a user-based system to process abstract submissions. Interested scholars should submit 250-word abstracts to co-chairs Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry through the NeMLA website, listed below.

Contact Information

For questions about the new submission system, you can contact NeMLA web support here: websupport@nemla.org. Questions specific to the roundtable can be sent to Lindsay.Bryde@gmail.com.

Contact Email
Lindsay.Bryde@gmail.com