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Jes Battis
Fifty poems to dance (awkwardly) between queer and anxious spaces.
Social anxiety runs through I Hate Parties like a current. Recorded on deliberately shaky media, this collection offers the B-side…
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Thinking Queerly traces the wizard from medieval Arthurian literature to contemporary YA adaptations. By exploring the link between Merlin and Harry Potter, or Morgan le Fay and Sabrina, we see…
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Presents an analysis of the show, uncovering ‘Farscape’s’ layers and those of the living spaceship Moya. This work explores the language and characters, including Moya, its creation of ‘family and…
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The fifth and final book of the series. Though she’s on leave from the Occult Special Investigations squad, Tess Corday is still grappling with her own personal mysteries. But finding…
This first novel in a new urban fantasy series introduces Tess Corday, Occult Special Investigator for Vancouver’s Mystical Crime Lab. Tess soon finds herself in the middle of a paranormal…
After a series of brutal murders, Occult Special Investigator Tess Corday is convinced the identity of the killer is locked in her own head. The only question is–how many rules…
When a powerful necromancer is killed, Occult Special Investigator Tess Corday must handle the heavy politics in the occult community as carefully as she handles the scant evidence. Original.
The TV series Buffy and Angel revolve around radical conceptions of family. This work argues that what makes these characters enduring and engaging is their critical family connections - for…
A queer, modern Arthurian tale set in contemporary Vancouver. An autistic college student who is the latest reincarnation of Sir Gawain is drawn deeper and deeper into the family secrets…
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This volume represents the first sustained scholarly treatment of George R.R. Martin’s groundbreaking work, and includes writing by experts involved in the production of the show. The contributors investigate a…
Includes fourteen critical essays that examine the brief-lived but landmark television series, My So-Called Life . This work tackles a range of topics - from identity politics, to music, to…
The goal of Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, is to analyze the ways in which young heroic protagonists…
Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, edited by Jes Battis, is collection of essays that showcase current writings by gay, lesbian, and transgender graduate students and which explores the unique…
