Poletti, Anna
Utrecht University / Monash University
Netherlands
Anna Poletti is Associate Professor of English at Utrecht University. She is co-editor of Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online (Wisconsin UP, 2014), and co-author of Life Narratives and Youth Culture (Palgrave, 2016). Her first book, Intimate Ephemera was published by Melbourne UP in 2008.
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FeatureThis essay originates out of our shared interest in genres and media forms used for identity practices that do not cohere into a narrative or a fixed representation of who someone is. It takes the current heightened visibility of drag as a mode of performance that explicitly engages with identity as a product materialized—but not completed—by the ongoing process of performance. We consider...Read more