Queer Studies in English Language Education

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72162-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Queer Studies in Education

“In the vast majority of language education literature, it seems as if we have been collectively imagining a monosexual community of interlocutors," denounced Cynthia Nelson in 2006. Nearly two decades later, her statement still seems widely true, despite marginal attempts to challenge this situation, not yet fully addressed by mainstream publishers, educators or policymakers.

The aim of this book is to contribute to creating more hospitable learning contexts by usualising diversity and queerness in the teaching of English worldwide, a field which, supposedly fostering a “lingua franca” has frequently spread white, masculine, Western, colonial and cisheterosexist stances, among others.

How did queerness become a movement in the teaching of English? How can practitioners respond to counterreactions? How has queer research developed in English Language Education? How can teaching materials be queer or anti-queer? How can literature and drama be used when teaching English from a queer perspective? What would a queer class of English be like? What is the situation of queer teachers of English in different countries? These are just some of the questions answered in this book, edited by Esteban López-Medina, Griselda Beacon, Mariano Quinterno and Xiana Sotelo.

Contributors are: Juanjo Bermúdez de Castro, Jules Buendgens-Kosten, Tatia Gruenbaum, Cristina A. Huertas-Abril, Nicolás Melo Panigatti, Thorsten Merse, Cynthia D. Nelson, Joshua Paiz, Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo, Michel Riquelme-Sanderson, Sue Sanders, Tyson Seburn, Keiko Tsuchiya and David Valente.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

López-Medina, Esteban F.

Beacon, Griselda

Quinterno, Mariano

Sotelo, Xiana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Sue Sanders and David Valente

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Griselda Beacon, Xiana Sotelo, Esteban F. López-Medina and Mariano Quinterno

PART 1: Queer Origins and Destinations

1 Queer Trailblazing in TESOL: The Emergence of Queer Studies in ELT

Cynthia D. Nelson

2 Dark Clouds Gather: Queering ELT Practice in Times of Radical Risk

Joshua M. Paiz

PART 2: The Queer Research Landscape

3 Queering English Language Education: A Meta-Reflection of Research Approaches

Thorsten Merse

4 Gender Modality and Trans-Topics in EFL? Perspectives from the German-Language Research Landscape

Jules Buendgens-Kosten

PART 3: Queering Materials

5 The Invisibility of Queerness in EFL Textbooks in Japan: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Keiko Tsuchiya

6 An Examination of How Anti-Queer ELT Materials Normally Are, Then Queering Them

Tyson Seburn

7 What Is Love? A Picturebook Ensemble to Spark LGBTQ-Inclusive English Language Education

Tatia Gruenbaum

PART 4: A Rainbow of Experiences

8 LGBTQ+ Rights in Chile: What Is ELT Doing to Acknowledge and Include the Traditionally Excluded?

Michel Riquelme-Sanderson

9 Socially and Culturally Responsive Language Teaching: Queering the EFL Classroom

Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo and Cristina A. Huertas-Abril

10 (Re)Constructing the Sense of Self: How Dominant Discourse Shapes Queer Identity in ELT in Montevideo

Nicolás Melo Panigatti

11 You Taught Me Stonewall Starts with a Sibilant: Dramatisations of LGBTQIA+ History and Diversity as an English Language Learning Vehicle at the University of the Balearic Islands

Juanjo Bermúdez de Castro

Conclusion

Xiana Sotelo, Mariano Quinterno, Griselda Beacon and Esteban F. López-Medina

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Esteban López-Medina is an English specialist with a BA in Religion, English Studies, and a PhD in Feminist and Gender Studies, they have taught from infant school to university in Spain and Argentina, and are an Assistant Professor at UCM, with a focus on queer studies in education.

Griselda Beacon, MA in literature, with 20+ years’ experience in teacher training and curriculum development, specializes in integrating literature and art in English education. She’s authored educational materials and lectures on American Literature at UBA, also consulting for NILE, UK.

Mariano Quinterno is an English teacher with a postgraduate course in Education and an MA in Applied Linguistics. He's currently pursuing his PhD He teaches at various institutions in Argentina and has lectured on ELT methodology across South America.

Xiana Sotelo holds a BA in English, PhD in Cultural and Literary Studies, and a master’s in Gender-Women’s Studies. She has taught at UFV and is an Assistant Professor at UCM. Her research spans Gender Studies, Ecocriticism, and Innovation in Humanities.