JEWISH/CHRISTIAN/QUEER
Queer Interventions
Series editors:
Noreen Giffney and Michael ORourke
University College Dublin, Ireland
Queer Interventions is an exciting, fresh and unique new series designed to publish innovative, experimental and theoretically engaged work in the burgeoning field of queer studies.
The aim of the series is to interrogate, develop and challenge queer theory, publishing queer work which intersects with other theoretical schools and is accessible whilst valuing difficulty; empirical work which is metatheoretical in focus; ethical and political projects and most importantly work which is self-reflexive about methodological and geographical location.
The series is interdisciplinary in focus and publishes monographs and collections of essays by new and established scholars. The editors intend the series to promote and maintain high scholarly standards of research and to be attentive to queer theorys shortcomings, silences, hegemonies and exclusions. They aim to encourage independence, creativity and experimentation: to make a queer theory that matters and to recreate it as something important; a space where new and exciting things can happen.
Titles in this series:
Queering the Non/Human
Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7128-2
Cinesexuality
Patricia MacCormack
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7175-6
Queer Attachments
Sally R. Munt
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4923-6
Jewish/Christian/Queer
Crossroads and Identities
Edited by
FREDERICK RODEN
University of Connecticut, USA
First Published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Jewish/Christian/queer. - (Queer interventions)
1. Christian gays 2. Jewish gays 3. Homosexuality
Religious aspects - Christianity 4. Homosexuality
Religious aspects - Judaism 5. Gays writings - History and
criticism
I. Roden, Frederick S., 1970-
270.08664
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roden, Frederick S., 1970-
Jewish/Christian/queer : crossroads and identities / by Frederick Roden.
p. cm. -- (Queer interventions)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7375-0
1. Gender identity. 2. Homosexuality-Religious aspects--Judaism. 3. Homosexuality-Religious
aspects--Christianity. I. Title. II. Title: Jewish, Christian, queer.
HQ1075.R613 2009
205.66--dc22
2009002147
ISBN: 978-0-754-67375-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-59045-5 (ebk)
Contents
Frederick S. Roden
Eugene F. Rogers, Jr.
Daniel Boyarin
Steven F. Kruger
Chris Mounsey
Richard Dellamora
Steven Lapidus
Frederick S. Roden
Alan Lewis and Goran Stanivukovic
Bryan Mark Rigg
Caroline Gonda
Frederick S. Roden
Notes on Contributors
Daniel Boyarin is the Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Rhetoric and Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where he directs the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures and the LGBT minor.
Richard Dellamora (Departments of English and Cultural Studies, Trent University, Canada) writes at length about Benjamin Disraeli in Friendships Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England (2004). Dellamora is also the author of Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism (1990) and Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending (1995) as well as editor of Victorian Sexual Dissidence (1999), The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference, co-edited with Daniel Fischlin (1997), and Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the End (1995).
Caroline Gonda is a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at St. Catharines College, Cambridge. She is the author of Reading Daughters Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth and co-editor with Chris Mounsey of Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800; she has also published on contemporary lesbian writing, lesbian theory and lesbian feminist criticism. Her current research is on lesbian narrative possibilities from the eighteenth century to the present.
Steven F. Kruger is professor of English and Medieval Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is currently Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center. He has written Dreaming in the Middle Ages, AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science, and The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe, and he has co-edited Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America (with Deborah R. Geis) and Queering the Middle Ages (with Glenn Burger). His current book project is tentatively titled Convert Orthodoxies.
Steven Lapidus is a doctoral candidate at Concordia University in Montreal, where he is studying the history of North American Orthodox Judaism as well as the social history of human sexuality. He teaches courses in religion at Concordia, and is a former curator of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. Aside from completing his dissertation, Steven is also working on publishing his grandfathers memoirs of life in a pre-World War I Ukrainian shtetl.
Alan Lewis received his PhD in English from the University of British Columbia and has published on Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and queer theory. He is currently at work on theories of literary influence and the early modern dramatists.
Chris Mounsey is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Winchester. The co-organizer, with Caroline Gonda of the successful Queer People conferences, Chris is now preparing their fourth collection of Queer People essays. Chris is also working on a book about the theology of queer authors, with Liz Stuart.
Bryan Mark Rigg