English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Gabriel Duckels

In brief

Date - 8 March 2024

Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square

Speaker - Dr Gabriel Duckels (University of Cambridge)

Chair - Dr Benjamin Bateman (University of Edinburgh)

Title - Street Queens and Clean Teens: Bareback Panic and the New Gay Young Adult Novel

About the speaker

Dr Gabriel Duckels is an Early Career Research Fellow in Education at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. His research is at the intersection of children’s literature and childhood studies; queer studies; HIV/AIDS sociology; and the study of aesthetics, culture, and pedagogy. He is particularly interested in the role of melodrama as a framework for public memory in popular culture, especially regarding HIV/AIDS.

Gabriel's research has been published in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and several other journals and venues. He is also working on two books, as well as preparing a monograph which expands his doctoral research on the representation of HIV/AIDS in texts for young people from the mid-1980s to the present day.

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