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Zoë E. Sprott (she/they) was born and raised on the island of Oahu, Hawai'i, and they decided that they wanted a PhD when they were only in second grade (they did not know what a PhD really was or what they wanted a PhD in, but they knew it would keep them in school for what felt like forever, and that sounded like heaven). During her undergraduate career at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, she went through six different majors—Music Education, Psychology, Public Health, Pre-Med, and Anthropology—before finding her home in the English department, where she went on to earn a B.A. in English, Honors in 2019 and an M.A. in English, Literary Studies in 2022. Zoë works extensively with queer and trans theory, and is interested primarily in contemporary literature, popular/digital literature, and pop culture studies. They are passionate about pushing theory to its limits and making it more accessible to the communities it draws upon and effects.
Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Contemporary Literature, Popular Literature, Digital Literature, Italian Studies, Genre Theory.
“Unstoppable Death Drive Meets Endless Horizon: Queer Futurity in Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Literatures Association 119th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California. 13 Nov 2022.
“Constructing the Ghoul Boys: Queerying Ethics and Identity in Buzzfeed Unsolved and Its Real-Person Fiction (RPF),” Brown Bag Biography Lecture Series, Honolulu, Hawai’i. 10 Feb 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8y1_jbNm7M
“Queer Meddlings: Exploring Fluid Notions of Identity and Genre in Edgar Cantero’s Meddling Kids.” Special Session on “Moving Images: Transculture, Transmedia, and Transidentities,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Literatures Association 118th Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. 12 Nov 2021.
“The ‘Great Un-Thoring’: Grappling with Hegemonic Masculinity and Patriarchal Power in Thor: Ragnarok.” Utopia and Dystopia: Conference on the Fantastic in Media Entertainment, Virtual. May 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pER-C4s-M88
“Queer Approaches to a New Horizon: Disruptive and Utopic Capitalism and Time in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.” 42nd Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Virtual. 26 Feb 2021. https://youtu.be/x41IhV2NP60?si=IMtcwOlQk3X6y-TR
“Charting the ‘Third Way’: Feminist Reimaginations of Patriarchal Religious Structures in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” 41st Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 21 Feb 2020.
“Writing Margaret: Queering Truth Through Auto/Biofiction in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World & Danielle Dutton’s Margaret the First.” Historical Corporealities, 2020 Graduate Student Conference, Center for Early Cultures, University of California, Irvine. 30 Jan 2020.
“Ethical Queeries of Participatory Identity Formation: Coping with Destabilizing Notions of Identity in BuzzFeed Unsolved, Ryan Bergara/Shane Madej Real-Person Fiction, and Their Shared Play Frame.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 55, no. 3, 2022, pp. 632-651.
Co-Author. “Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2021.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, 2022, pp. 163-248.
“Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2020.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, 2021, pp. 175-294.
“’The Great Work Begins’: The Reception and Relevance of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America in a Millennial World.” Mānoa Horizons, vol. 4, no. 1, 2019, pp. 19-26.
“The Dark I Know Well.” Litro Online, 6 April 2019.
“A Seat at the Table.” Runestone Journal, vol. 5, February 2019.
“Case File #3689.” Vice-Versa, 2019.
“Reveille.” Mānoa Horizons, vol. 3, no. 1, 2018, pp. 154-156.
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