publications

2022

1. Chapter

   Queer Maximalism, Wildness, and Machine Dazzle’s A 24-Decade of Popular Music

   Westerling, Kalle

   Bib

   @incollection{westerlingQueerMaximalism2022,
     abbr = {Chapter},
     title = {Queer Maximalism, Wildness, and Machine Dazzle’s A 24-Decade of Popular Music},
     booktitle = {Queer Maximalism Exhibition Catalog},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     editor = {Auther, Elissa},
     date = {2022},
     selected = {true},
     publisher = {Rizzoli},
     location = {New York, NY},
     langid = {English},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2. Chapter

   Expanding DH Communities of Practice through Andragogy, Critical Pedagogy, and Carework

   Westerling, Kalle, and Rhody, Lisa Marie

   Bib

   @incollection{westerlingExpandingDHCommunities2022,
     abbr = {Chapter},
     title = {Expanding DH Communities of Practice through Andragogy, Critical Pedagogy, and Carework},
     booktitle = {Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle and Rhody, Lisa Marie},
     editor = {Croxall, Brian and Jakacki, Diane},
     date = {2022},
     selected = {true},
     publisher = {University of Minnesota Press},
     location = {Minneapolis, MN},
     langid = {English},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2021

1. Chapter

   Between Power Bombs and Death Drops: Interpellation and Identity in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and Queer Indie Wrestling

   Westerling, Kalle

   Abs Bib HTML

   In Kristoffer Díaz’s widely celebrated and award-winning The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, audiences are double-whammied with an introduction to the world of professional wrestling and a critique of American neoliberal capitalism. The ring, central to Chad Deity’s action, belongs to the Wrestling, operated by Everett K. Olson, the white, racist boss who is mostly interested in capitalizing on racial stereotypes. The portrayal of wrestling in Chad Deity reminds us of Althusser’s description of the Ideological State Apparatus as a repressive power apparatus. This chapter offers a few ways that the queer wrestling promotions take up the disidentificatory aesthetic articulated in Chad Deity, and should be seen as a bourgeoning network of actors building an infrastructure of a new social world that offers minoritarian subjects a “space to situate in history and thus seize social agency,” to again borrow a formulation from José Esteban Muñoz.

   @incollection{westerlingPowerBombsDeath2021,
     abbr = {Chapter},
     title = {Between Power Bombs and Death Drops: Interpellation and Identity in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and Queer Indie Wrestling},
     shorttitle = {Between Power Bombs and Death Drops},
     booktitle = {Sports Plays},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     editor = {Laine, Eero and Chow, Broderick},
     date = {2021},
     selected = {true},
     pages = {150-168},
     publisher = {Routledge},
     location = {New York and London},
     isbn = {978-0-367-81001-6},
     doi = {10.4324/9780367810016-13},
     html = {https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367810016-13},
     langid = {English},
     pagetotal = {19},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2020

1. Chapter

   Race for the Money: The Influence of RuPaul's Drag Race on the Livelihood and Aesthetics of New York City's Drag Culture

   Westerling, Kalle

   Abs Bib HTML

   The Influence of RuPaul’s Drag Race on the Livelihood and Aesthetics ofNew York City’s Drag CultureKalle Westerling In 1996, cultural critic Julian Fleischer described New York City’s (NYC) drag scene as a unique cultural environment, different and distant from that of female impersonation prevalent in other parts of the country (Fleischer, 1996) . In large parts, that culture had been shaped by RuPaul and her arrival in Manhattan’s drag scene. With the increasing commercial and cultural success of the television show RuPaul’s Drag Race, that environment reached an international audience. Over the past decade of Drag Race on television, I have seen drag shows several nights per week and had countless conversations with performers, witnessing first-hand a changing local culture.

   @incollection{westerlingRaceMoneyInfluence2020,
     abbr = {Chapter},
     title = {Race for the Money: The Influence of RuPaul's Drag Race on the Livelihood and Aesthetics of New York City's Drag Culture},
     booktitle = {Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     editor = {Edward, Mark and Farrier, Stephen},
     date = {2020},
     selected = {true},
     volume = {1},
     pages = {33-44},
     publisher = {Bloomsbury Publishing},
     isbn = {978-1-350-08296-0},
     langid = {English},
     bibtex_show = {true},
     doi = {10.5040/9781350082977.ch-003},
     html = {https://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350082977.ch-003}
   }

2018

1. TDR

   Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance by Elise Morrison, and: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne (Review)

   Westerling, Kalle

   Bib HTML

   @article{westerlingDisciplineDesireSurveillance2018,
     abbr = {TDR},
     title = {Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance by Elise Morrison, and: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne (Review)},
     shorttitle = {Discipline and Desire},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     date = {2018},
     journaltitle = {TDR: The Drama Review},
     volume = {62},
     number = {3},
     pages = {181-184},
     publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
     issn = {1531-4715},
     html = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/702234},
     langid = {English},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2. TJ

   Mainstream Aids Theatre, The Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable by Jacob Juntunen (Review)

   Westerling, Kalle

   Bib HTML

   @article{westerlingMainstreamAidsTheatre2018,
     abbr = {TJ},
     title = {Mainstream Aids Theatre, The Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable by Jacob Juntunen (Review)},
     shorttitle = {Mainstream Aids Theatre, The Media, and Gay Civil Rights},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     date = {2018},
     journaltitle = {Theatre Journal},
     volume = {70},
     number = {1},
     pages = {127-128},
     publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
     issn = {1086-332X},
     doi = {10.1353/tj.2018.0021},
     html = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/691806},
     langid = {English},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2017

1. TJ

   Subjective Histories of Taylor Mac’s “Radical Faerie Realness Ritual” History

   Westerling, Kalle, Román, David, Venning, Dan, Buckley, Jennifer, Felton-Dansky, Miriam, Marra, Kim, Alvarez, César, and Patterson, Erik

   Bib HTML

   @article{westerlingSubjectiveHistoriesTaylor2017,
     abbr = {TJ},
     title = {Subjective Histories of Taylor Mac’s “Radical Faerie Realness Ritual” History},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle and Román, David and Venning, Dan and Buckley, Jennifer and Felton-Dansky, Miriam and Marra, Kim and Alvarez, César and Patterson, Erik},
     date = {2017},
     journaltitle = {Theatre Journal},
     volume = {69},
     number = {3},
     pages = {403-415},
     publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
     issn = {1086-332X},
     doi = {10.1353/tj.2017.0048},
     html = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/670584},
     langid = {English},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2012

1. ln

   After sex?

   Westerling, Kalle

   Bib HTML

   @article{westerlingSex2012,
     abbr = {ln},
     title = {After sex?},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     date = {2012},
     journaltitle = {lambda nordica},
     volume = {17},
     number = {3},
     pages = {119-122},
     issn = {2001-7286},
     html = {https://www.lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/article/view/353},
     issue = {3},
     langid = {Swedish},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2011

1. Chapter

   Burleskhistoria

   Westerling, Kalle

   Bib

   @incollection{westerlingBurleskhistoria2011,
     abbr = {Chapter},
     title = {Burleskhistoria},
     booktitle = {Burleska bastarder: sagan om Hootchy Kootchy Club och den udda familjen vid regnbågens ände},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     editor = {Imam, Shang and Ahlberg, Martin and Johansson, Jesper Ims},
     date = {2011},
     publisher = {Voltaire Publishing},
     location = {Stockholm},
     isbn = {978-91-86515-28-7},
     langid = {Swedish},
     annotation = {OCLC: 760983199},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2008

1. ln

   Annorlundahetens potential: Dragshow och den politiska estetiken i att framträda annorlunda

   Westerling, Kalle

   Bib

   @article{westerlingAnnorlundahetensPotentialDragshow2008,
     abbr = {ln},
     title = {Annorlundahetens potential: Dragshow och den politiska estetiken i att framträda annorlunda},
     shorttitle = {Kungar och drottningar},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     date = {2008},
     journaltitle = {lambda nordica},
     volume = {13},
     number = {1-2},
     pages = {30-49},
     issn = {1100-2573},
     langid = {Swedish},
     annotation = {OCLC: 938767788},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2007

1. Editor

   Willmar in the World: Young Scholars Exploring the Theatrical Event : A Festschrift for Willmar Sauter on His 60th Birthday

   Westerling, Kalle, Feiler, Yael, Hoogland, Rikard, and Sauter, Willmar

   Bib

   @book{westerlingWillmarWorldYoung2007,
     abbr = {Editor},
     title = {Willmar in the World: Young Scholars Exploring the Theatrical Event : A Festschrift for Willmar Sauter on His 60th Birthday},
     shorttitle = {Willmar in the World},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle and Feiler, Yael and Hoogland, Rikard and Sauter, Willmar},
     date = {2007},
     publisher = {Stiftelsen för utgivning av teatervetenskapliga studier (STUTS)},
     location = {Stockholm},
     isbn = {978-91-976743-0-0},
     langid = {English},
     annotation = {OCLC: 922571386},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2006

1. Book

   La dolce vita: trettio år med drag

   Westerling, Kalle

   Bib

   @book{westerlingDolceVitaTrettio2006,
     abbr = {Book},
     title = {La dolce vita: trettio år med drag},
     shorttitle = {La dolce vita},
     author = {Westerling, Kalle},
     date = {2006},
     publisher = {Normal},
     location = {Stockholm},
     isbn = {978-91-85505-15-9},
     langid = {Swedish},
     annotation = {OCLC: 185311550},
     bibtex_show = {true}
   }

2004