Off-campus WSU users: To download campus access dissertations, please use the following link to log into our proxy server with your WSU access ID and password, then click the "Off-campus Download" button below.
Non-WSU users: Please talk to your librarian about requesting this dissertation through interlibrary loan.
Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2024
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Kelly M. Young
Abstract
This dissertation explores the author’s dual experiences of becoming queer and living with mental illness. Using performative methods, the author critiques the hegemonic academic industrial complex, graduate education norms, and gay life in late capitalism. Ultimately, the author concludes that queerness is too excessive to be confined to a dissertation page. As such, the author attempts to queer the dissertation through writing and performing a one act play concerning the themes of the project. Topics explored include: queer digital culture, living and enduring mental illness, the discovery of sexual citizenship, and navigating late capitalism as a millennial.
Recommended Citation
Bumstead, Brandon Robert, "Un(disciplined): On Be(com)ing Queer In Late Capitalism" (2024). Wayne State University Dissertations. 4034.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/4034
