Research Experience

Jeffery P. Dennis

 

 

Current Projects

 

Love Laughs at Andy Hardy: The Adolescent Arcadia, 1880 to 1940.  Under Review, Indiana University Press. Read sample.

 

Bible-Believing, Spirit-Filled, Gay Affirming: The Gay Fundamentalist Movement. Read abstract

 

 

Books

 

The Culture of Silence: Popular Culture and Gay Identity.  In press, University of Wisconsin Press. Read sample.

 

All-American Boys: Queering Teen Culture. Forthcoming, Haworth Press. Read sample.

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Journal Articles

 

"From Arcadia to Utopia: Metanarratives of Same-Sex Desire  in Ethnographic Texts.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 30.3 (Oct. 2000).  618-640. 

 

Queer on the Tenure Track: The Domestication of Transgressive Sexual Identities in the Academy.” International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies 5.3 (Oct. 2000): 311-324.  

 

“Lying with Man as With Woman: Rethinking the Impact of Religious Ideology on Gay Urban Enclaves.” The Journal of Homosexuality.44.1 (Feb 2002): 43-60

 

“Veronica and Betty are Going Steady: Queer Spaces in Archie Comics.” Torquere: Journal of the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Studies Association 4-5 (2002-2003): 125-142.  Read sample.

 

“Queertoons: The Dynamics of Same-Sex Desire in Television Cartoons.” Soundscapes 6.6 (June 2003). Link to full text.

 

“The Same Thing We Do Every Night: Signifying Same-Sex Desire in Television Cartoons.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 31.1 (Fall 2003): 31-41. Link to full text.

 

"The Light in the Forest: Cold War Masculinity and the Disney Adventure Boys.” Journal of American Popular Culture 3.1 (Spring 2004): Link to full text

“Love Laughs at Andy Hardy: World War II and the Invention of the Heterosexual Teenager.”  Forthcoming, Genders.

 

"Are You a Whosoever? Homophobia and Disclosure on Gay Church Websites."  Under review, Sociology of Religion.  Read sample.

 

"Comte's Utopia." Under review, Classical Sociological TheoryRead sample.

 

"Tintin, Asterix, and Alix: The Homoerotics of Youth in the Bandes Dessinée." Under review, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.

 

"Beyond Textual Poaching: Heterosexual Fans, Queer TV." Under review, Journal of Critical Communications. 

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Chapters in Books

 

"The Sexualization of Childhood.” In D. Cook, ed. Symbolic Childhoods.  New York: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2001. Read sample.

 

“The Hispanic Family.”  In J. Hawes & E. Shores, eds., The Family in America.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.

 

“The McDonaldization of the Family: Rationalized Nuclear Family Discourse in Twentieth Century America.”  In G. Ritzer, ed., The McDonaldization Reader. Pine Forge Press, 2002. Read sample.

 

"From Jonny Quest to The Powerpuff Girls: Queer Youth and the Culture of Resistance."  Under review, S. Driver and M. Herrup, eds., Queer Youth Cultures.

 

"The Teen Idol." Under review, S. Holmes & S. Redmond, eds., Celebrity Culture.

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Encyclopedia Articles

 

“Sociology: Continuing Issues and Controversies”; “Labeling Theory”; “Homosociality.”  In T. Murphy, ed., The Reader’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.

 

“Islam”; “Judaism”; “Gay and Lesbian Studies”; “Total Institutions”; “Transsexualism”; “Utopias.”  In J. Palmisano, ed., The World of Sociology.  Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2000.

 

"Charles Atlas.“ In M. Kimmel, ed., The Encyclopedia of Masculinity. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,  2002. Read full text.

 

“Heteronormativity.” In M. Kimmel, ed., The Encyclopedia of Masculinity. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,  2002. Read full text.

 

“Religious Social Movements of the Twentieth Century.”  Forthcoming in I. Ness, ed., Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. M.E. Sharpe, 2003.  Read full text

 

“Gay Churches and Synagogues.” In glbtq: An Online Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer Culture, 2004. Link to full text

 

"Evangelical Christians.” In glbtq: An Online Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer Culture, 2004. Link to full text 

 

"Proms." Forthcoming in J. Sears, ed., Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia. Praeger, 2005. Read full text.

 

"Animated Cartoons." Forthcoming in J. Sears, ed., Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia. Praeger, 2005. Read full text

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Conference Presentations

 

"From Folk Devil to Fairy Godmother: The Iconography of the Drag Queen.” Eastern Sociological Association, Philadelphia, March 1998.

 

“Monstrous Desire for the Infinite: Queer Theory and the Sociological Fathers” International Sociological Association, Montreal, July 1998. Read full text.

 

"Taking Back the Tower: Responses to the Institutionalization of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Academy.” Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 1999. Read sample.

 

“A Sociological Road Not Take: Transgressive Utopias Before Durkheim.”  American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1999. 

 

“Redlight Districts and Wrong Sides of the Tracks: The Landscape of Transgressive Sexualities.” Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, March 2000

 

“The Queer Makes Good: Notes on  The Domestication of Transgressive Identity in the Academy.” American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August 2000. 

 

“Crossing Castro Street: The Borderlands of Gay Utopia.” Conference on Sexuality and Space, New York, February 2001. Read full text.

 

“The Impact of Religious Ideologies on the Colonization of Urban Space.” American Sociological Association, Anaheim, August 2001.

 

“Veronica and Betty Are Going Steady: The Archie Comics Empire and Queer Adolescence.”  Popular Culture/American Culture Association, Toronto, March 2002

 

“Kilroy was Queer: Heteronormativity on Disney Television.”  Eastern Sociological Association, Boston,  March 2002.  Read full text.

 

"Homophobic Rhetoric in Sub-Saharan Africa."  Bowdoin College Faculty Seminar, Brunswick ME, April 2002.

 

"Krazy Kat and the Tyranny of Unknowing." Florida Atlantic University Faculty Colloquium, February 2003. Invited.

 

"The Decline and Fall of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.”  Popular Culture/ American Culture Association, New Orleans, March 2003.

 

"Weber on Parnassus: The Impact of German Modernism on Max Weber's Social Thought." The International Social Theory Consortium, Tampa, May 2003.

 

"Andy Hardy and World War II Adolescence." Public Intellectuals Seminar, FAU, November 2003.

 

“Beyond Textual Poaching: Heterosexuals Queering Television Texts.” Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference, Urbana, June 2004. Invited.

 

"The Boy Who Would Be Queen: Strategies of Knowing and Unknowing on Children's TV"  Popular Culture/American Culture Association, San Diego, March 2005. Expected.

 

"“The Real Jonny Quest: Distancing and Homoromantic Potential in a Popular Culture Icon.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, March 2005. Expected.

 

 

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