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Michael Shetina
Michael Shetina is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include LGBTQ censorship and content regulation, media and literature, queer theory, spectatorship and temporality. His dissertation project, currently titled ‘Are they family?: Queer parents and queer pasts in contemporary American culture’, analyses intergenerational queer attachments in recent American media and literature through historical queer parental figures. Engaging queer scholarship on temporality, he calls for a revision in LGBTQ historical models that focus on political trajectories and privilege visibility, thereby obscuring the role of these parental figures – and the kinship networks that they create and maintain – in the intergenerational transmission of queer knowledges.