Deffenbacher, Kristina
Hamline University
Kristina Deffenbacher is Professor of English at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches and writes in the fields of gender studies, cultural studies, and British and Irish literatures. Her most recent work on gender, media, and culture includes the essay, “Good Girls Revolt, ‘Nasty Women’ and the Politics of Recognition,” and the article, “Alternative Gazes, Aesthetics, and Affects in I Love Dick.”
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ArticlesNeil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto (2005) reconceives transience and domesticity together. This queer Irish road film collapses opposition between mobility and home by uncoupling them from heteronormative structures of gender, desire, and space—male/female, public/private. The film’s protagonist, Patrick “Kitten” Braden (Cillian...Read more
