Language, Gender, and Sexuality
An Anticipatory Retrospective
Edited by
Kira Hall [+–]
University of Colorado Boulder
Kira Hall is Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Rodrigo Borba [+–]
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Rodrigo Borba is an Assistant Professor of English Language at the Anglo-German Literature Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Mie Hiramoto [+–]
National University of Singapore
Mie Hiramoto is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore.
This volume offers a thirty-year retrospective on the field of language, gender, and sexuality by featuring 40 short, reflexive essays authored by renowned and up-and-coming scholars in the field. It contains 22 essays published across four issues of Gender and Language in 2021 and another 18 new essays. The volume, thus, offers an anticipatory retrospective of language, gender and sexuality research as it gathers several of the field’s luminaries (some of whom inaugurated it in the 1970s and 1980s) and puts them side-by-side with a new generation of scholars from various parts of the world who are taking the field to exciting new directions. In such a way, the essays look back into language, gender, and sexuality research in an anticipatory retrospection of its future while grounding the discussion squarely within the field’s present. This is the first volume which features retrospective essays from the field’s leading scholars, and it will be widely read and cited for both research and classroom purposes.
The new essays are written by scholars whose research focuses on understudied minority groups and under-represented geographic areas, emerging scholars whose work specifically develops transgender and nonbinary perspectives and established scholars.
