{"id":11348,"date":"2024-04-23T22:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=11348"},"modified":"2024-05-13T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T23:21:36","slug":"i-may-be-the-next-fear-of-the-queer-in-the-thing-on-the-doorstep-by-h-p-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/i-may-be-the-next-fear-of-the-queer-in-the-thing-on-the-doorstep-by-h-p-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I May Be the Next: Fear of the Queer in &#8216;The Thing on the Doorstep&#8217; by H.P. Lovecraft&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Holly Allen presented an excerpt from her upcoming paper, \u201cI May be the Next: Fear of the Queer in \u2018The Thing on the Doorstep\u2019,\u201d slated for publication in the 2024 issue of <em>Lovecraft Annual<\/em>. This presentation took place in late March of 2024 at the inaugural Society for the Study of the American Gothic Symposium in Salem, MA. Allen&#8217;s presentation highlighted the fact that American author H. P. Lovecraft\u2019s work has been analyzed in a variety of ways with a variety of foci and yet one topic that receives far less attention is that of the queer. Regardless of this omission in research, Allen noted that Lovecraft\u2019s work includes tales of body-switching between genders, peculiar sexually-charged descriptive language, and men with extremely close bonds. Much of this presentation focused on the breaking down the concept of the \u201cThing\u201d with the aid of Kantian philosophy and Guy Hocquenghem\u2019s definition of the sexual other, employing both Kantian logic and early queer theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graduate Conference Travel Grant<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Holly Allen (English)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":11349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-24-grants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11393,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions\/11393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}