Cultural Studies Association

Each spring, the CSA hosts an international conference that provides members an opportunity to meet and network with other professionals in the discipline, introduce students to the wider professional community, and share and discuss current efforts in cultural studies research and practice.

We hope to meet you soon!

is pleased to present Postcolonial Literature and Culture (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/20081)!

The Postcolonial Literature and Culture session invites submissions that explore postcolonial literature, art, film, or culture. We specifically welcome papers aligned with the conference theme, “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict,” although the session is open to any projects engaging with postcolonial texts.

The extended deadline for paper proposals is June 30 or when filled! You can also browse our more than 150+ open sessions here (https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP)!

We are looking forward to seeing at our annual conference in the Hyatt Regency Seattle (Nov 12-15)!

“Cisgender” is the first book to trace the story of how cis entered contemporary gender lexicons. Utilizing unplumbed archives and fresh interviews, Perry Zurn offers a critical history of the term from the 1990s to the present, deftly defamiliarizing and reimagining cis at the same time. Read a Q&A with him at the link in our bio.

I was pleased to host a Meet the Author session at the 24th annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association Conference. Since this year’s theme was “Oppositions,” the panels, roundtables, and papers addressed oppositions in political, cultural, and discursive practices. We also explored how a logic of oppositionality maps out the field of cultural studies while imposing conceptual and structural limits on the field’s scope of inquiry. The CSA asked: How might a logic of opposition obscure acts of complicity, interpenetrating agendas, and complex cultural, political, and social intra-actions? The panels I attended included:

*Currents of Black Spirituality
*Race On Screen
*Opening Plenary
*Oppositionalities in the Higher Education Classroom Now
*Sites and Tactics of Decolonial Knowledge

Thank you to the CSA Program Committee for selecting TRAUMA, TRESSES, & TRUTH: Untangling Our Hair through Personal Narratives (Chicago Review Press), for my lively 90-minute session. I have to give a ginormous to the wonderful Ayondela McDole, Phd, who served as my energetic and insightful moderator!

Thank you to all those who support the CSA, see you next year!