Join us for the launch of Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style and Sexuality (Fordham, 2019) and meet one of the editors, Derritt Mason (U.of Calgary, Canada). Here is some information about the book: "To campmeans to occupy a place and/or time provisionally or under special circumstances. To camp can also mean to queer. And for many children and young adults, summer camp is a formative experience mixed with homosocial structure and homoerotic longing. In Queer as Camp, editorsKenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason curate a collection of essays and critical memoirs exploring the intersections of “queer” and “camp,” focusing especially on camp as an alternative and potentially nonnormative place and/or time."

Derritt Mason is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Calgary, where he teaches and researches at the intersection of children's and young adult literature, queer theory, and cultural studies. He is the author of The Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture (forthcoming, UP of Mississippi).

Venue: Litteraturhuset's office

Free admission. Tea and coffee will be served.