{"id":27403,"date":"2024-10-11T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=27403"},"modified":"2024-10-16T08:24:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:24:30","slug":"marshall-professor-to-speak-about-recent-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/marshall-professor-to-speak-about-recent-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall professor to speak about recent book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As part of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Quality Initiative at Marshall University, Dr. Allison Carey will discuss her recent book, Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in Appalachia at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Drinko Library Atrium, located on the library\u2019s third floor. Carey is professor and chair of the Department of English, and a distinguished scholar.<\/p>\n<p>In her book, she examines a collection of poetry and prose writings from LGBTQ authors from the Appalachian region. Her presentation will illuminate the complex intersections of place, family, sexuality, gender and religion that people who live in Appalachia and identify as LGBTQ often navigate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAppalachia is a rich and complex region that has been all too often portrayed as monolithic and homogenous, and understanding the diversity of voices and experiences in the region is key,\u201d Carey said. \u201cAlso, I hope readers \u2014 and people who attend the presentation \u2014 will take away a list of LGBTQ Appalachian authors whose works they want to read. I hope that readers will learn about these talented writers or gain a new perspective about some writers they thought that they knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carey said her original inspiration for the book was something that she could not find.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was writing a conference paper on an award-winning YA (young adult) novel about a young woman in Kentucky who is lesbian, and I assumed that I would find scholarly studies of this groundbreaking book, or at least about other LGBTQ literature in Appalachia,\u201d she said. \u201cInstead, I found that very little had been published on this topic. Eventually, I realized that most LGBTQ Appalachian authors and their work have been doubly erased \u2014 disregarded within the literature of the United States because they\u2019re Appalachian (\u2018regionalists,\u2019 \u2018local color,\u2019 etc.) and overlooked or excluded from the Appalachian literary tradition because they are part of the LGBTQ community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book discussion is free and open to all, and it will be livestreamed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/livestream\/\">https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/livestream\/<\/a>. Refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>It is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs in support of Marshall University\u2019s HLC Quality Initiative. All members of the campus and surrounding community are welcome to attend.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Quality Initiative at Marshall University, Dr. Allison Carey will discuss her recent book, Doubly Erased: LGBTQ Literature in Appalachia at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Drinko Library Atrium, located on the library\u2019s third floor. Carey is professor and chair of the Department of English, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27425,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403\/revisions\/27425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}