At the moment, I'm most interested in the roles that female characters take on in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and their function within the text. I've been thinking a lot lately about the way that women serve as vehicles for moral development, how they are continuously produced and reproduced to play out repetitive roles, and the way that they reveal Spenser's own anxieties regarding Queen Elizabeth I and early modern England. I'd like to use Lee Edelman's No Future to consider the ways in which reproduction, both regarding subjects within the text and the physical text itself, operates. I'm particularly interested in the poem's handling of instances of non-reproductive excess, female autonomy, and the policing of reproduction done by bodies deemed foreign. I also want to examine the physical form of the text: an unfinished body, produced and reproduced differently depending on the printing and edition, commissioned by the Queen, and written in Ireland (a lot to unpack there). I'm most looking forward to investigating the ways that form and content interact and doing a fuller reproductive futurity-based reading of the poem (beyond simply that things are produced and reproduced (can confirm this is true)). My work would likely be situated in the emerging field of Early Modern Trans Studies (if you couldn't already tell how much time I spend in Prof. Gordon's classes), so I'll have to read a lot more about that, probably.