As a collective, we have meetings every other week. Send us an email (engenderingthepast@gmail.com) to get the zoom link – or subscribe to the mailing list to receive updates.
Writing Group
Fridays, we meet at 9 am GMT/BST for doing some writing and work together.These are the dates for the coming weeks:
September 12, 26
October 10, 24
November 7, 21
December 5, 19
Webinar
Thursdays evenings (UTC), we have a monthly webinar series in which we discuss new work, questions, and scholars can present their new work. If you want to present your work, please contact us with your idea!
Upcoming Webinars
Andreea Moise: “Trialectics of Tmetic Affect in Ann Quin’s “Three” “- 4 December 2025: 4 pm GMT
Abstract: In line with Susan Sontag’s call in her essay “Against Interpretation” to implement a study of the novel that highlights the inner workings of form, and marshal criticism in the direction of “show[ing] how [a novel] is . . . rather than to show what it means” (14), my research contributes to thetheorisation of experimental writing. If one separates literature into conventionally realist texts (Roland Barthes’ texts of pleasure) and subversive narratives (or texts of bliss), one must also account for the discontinuities that blur the lines between the two, the tmesis – that is, “the trace of a cut”. My interest lies in Ann Quin’s second novel Three (1966), which through the subversion of traditionally dyadic coupling, bourgeois desire, and the poetics of precarity, establishes a trialectics of relationality that (re)traces many excesses and absences of meaning and thus instantiates a complex understanding of affect as trialectical/tmetic.
Andreea Moise is an Assistant Lecturer in the American Studies program at the University of Bucharest. Her doctoral thesis, “Towards a Queer Narratology: Affectual Forms in British and American Women’s Experimentalism from the 1960s,” proposes an affectual hermeneutics that centers queer forms and their patho(s)logies in the experimental fiction of Ann Quin and Marguerite Young.
Past Webinars
Rachel Vogler:“Cultural production at Conjunctures of Violence” – 23 October 2025
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