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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">*Apologies for cross posting*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Rethinking Queer Linguistics? Theories, Applications, Future Directions (working title)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are seeking contributions to a new edited volume bringing together theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches to Queer Linguistics with the overall aim of reflecting on and rethinking the status, impact, and future trajectories
of the field.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Queer Linguistics, as a critical approach to the analysis of language and discourse, has gained much traction over the past two decades or so. Rooted in Feminist, Lesbian and Gay, and Lavender Linguistics, and informed by Queer Theory more
broadly, Queer Linguistics (QL) has sought to extend the field of inquiry by adoptin<w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_4" id="-1826122619"></w:Sdt><w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_5" id="397558525"></w:Sdt><w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_6" id="770673905"></w:Sdt>g a critical position
vis-a-vis the discursive formation of normativities around gender and sexuality. This is to examine how forms of cis-, hetero-, homo- and other normativities, are constructed, perpetuated and performed in and by language and discourse, including the important
role of intersectionality and other related concepts (e.g., homonationalism). In addition, such examinations also encompass how these<w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_11" id="1683927760"> normative formations</w:Sdt> may
<w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_12" id="1054043574">potentially </w:Sdt>be overcome (at least linguistically). Accordingly, questions have recently arisen as to how QL might also find relevance to the broader field of Applied Linguistics, especially in the effort to
reduce discriminatory communication and assign a greater role to diversity - a Queer “Applied” Linguistics as it were.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With that said, in seeking to reflect on the status and impact of QL in comparison to other related areas within and outside of linguistics, there are a number of potential lines of inquiry, but also challenges and complications that need
to be considered. As anything “queer” evades being defined - by definition (pun intended), is it possible (or desirable) to map QL as a “discipline”, and what implications does this have for mapping its relations with other fields? Further challenges concern
the poststructuralist heritage of QL, where the issues raised in queer theoretical and queer linguistic discussions still seem to be very far away from (and at first glance hardly compatible with) most of the prevailing public conceptions of sex/gender and
sexuality, and the discourses related to them. Moreover, there is a need to rethink QL in terms of how decolonial and/or Southern perspectives and theories might be integrated with queer (applied) linguistic approaches.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a way of responding to these issues and challenges in Queer (Applied) Linguistics and building on panel discussions at the Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference in 2022 and the AILA World Congress in 2023, we, Martin Stegu, Joanna
Chojnicka, and Benedict Rowlett, invite chapter contributions for an edited volume tentatively titled as above. We see this volume to be a forum for, on the one hand, engaging with theoretical/methodological issues in QL as it has developed over the past
20 years, as well as its future directions. On the other hand, we also see it as a forum that brings together contemporary applications of QL to address language related issues and problems in diverse contexts across the globe. Accordingly, we are particularly
interested in receiving contributions from scholars who are working on relevant topics in underrepresented contexts of the Global South.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Areas we see the chapters potentially (re)addressing include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Theoretical and methodological contributions<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_15" id="-978147266">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"><w:sdtPr></w:sdtPr><w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_14" id="1922914614">Traditional and potential new research fields in QL</w:Sdt><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">Important challenges facing QL today and in the future<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">Different approaches to QL, and the role diversity and pluralism play within QL itself<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">Concrete real world problems where the application of QL would be useful<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">QL and decolonising strategies in language research<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">QL and technology, including artificial intelligence<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2">QL methodologies<w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_18" id="-722607582">, including “queering” as a methodology that goes beyond gender and sexual orientation issues</w:Sdt><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="2" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Empirical contributions (Queer Applied Linguistics)<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Applications of QL in education<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Applications of QL in discourse studies<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Applications of QL in the workplace<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Applications of QL in the media<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Applications of QL in online spaces<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">The volume is anticipated to be one of the first publications in a new series with Bloomsbury Academic on the topic of Queer Linguistics. We will therefore work closely with Bloomsbury editors
on developing and delivering what promises to be an exciting and important collection of current work in the field.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Please send <u>
a tentative title and 200-word abstract by the e</u><w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_24" id="489766344"></w:Sdt><u>nd of February 2024</u> to Martin (<a href="mailto:martin.stegu@wu.ac.at">martin.stegu@wu.ac.at</a>)
<w:Sdt SdtTag="goog_rdk_26" id="1830247351"></w:Sdt>Joanna (<a href="mailto:j.chojnicka@rug.nl">j.chojnicka@rug.nl</a>), and Ben (<a href="mailto:browlett@hkbu.edu.hk">browlett@hkbu.edu.hk</a>) Please also include your name and contact information. We look
forward to receiving your abstracts. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Dr Benedict J.L. Rowlett FHEA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Assistant Professor
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Associate Programme Director of English and Education Double Degree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Associate Programme Director of Master of Arts in Language Studies
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Department of English Language and Literature</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Hong Kong Baptist University
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Office: OEW1110</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Tel: (852) 3411 5031</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="http://eng.hkbu.edu.hk/people/academic-staff/assistant-professor/rowlett-benedict/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">http://eng.hkbu.edu.hk/people/academic-staff/assistant-professor/rowlett-benedict/ </span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">ORCID Page: <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-4126" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-4126</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">ResearchGate Page: <u><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benedict-Rowlett" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benedict-Rowlett</span></a></u></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Recent Publications: <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17405904.2022.2039734"><span style="color:#0563C1">Merging Mobilities</span></a>
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