From the Department of English at King's College London

Tag: queer studies

2021 Ellen Craft Essay Prize Awarded to PhD Student Katie Arthur

Post author By Katie Arthur
Post date 1 March 2021

By Professor Mark Turner, PGR Lead

It is a pleasure to announce to the KCL English community that the Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) has awarded the 2021 Ellen Craft Essay Prize to one of our PhD students, Katie Arthur, for her brilliant essay, ‘Arousing Disgust: Visceral Configurations of Obscenity through Literal, Literary, and Governmental Bodies in William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (1959)’.

Tags Ellen Craft Essay Prize, gender and sexuality, Naked Lunch, obscenity, queer studies, Scottish Association for the Study of America, sexuality, visceral, William S. Burroughs

20th - 21st Centuries American Studies Culture, Text and History Gender and Sexuality Visual and Material Culture

Queering the obscene: how the archives shaped my PhD

Post author By Katie Arthur
Post date 8 January 2020

From books banned in Boston to films cut in Maryland: in the summer of 2019 PhD candidate Katie Arthur visited five archives in four US states to grapple with questions of queerness and obscenity in the censorship cases of author William S. Burroughs and filmmaker John Waters.

Tags Baltimore, Boston, censorship, John Waters, law, Maryland State Board of Censors, Naked Lunch, New York, obscenity, Pink Flamingos, Queer, queer studies, queer theory, Supreme Court, the obscene, William Burroughs