Articles by Megan Turner

\Megan Turner is a doctoral candidate in Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where she is writing her dissertation, entitled Sex on Fire: Queering Anarchist Futures in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century US Culture. Exploring the textual strategies used by anarchist groups to mobilize readers and create political communities, Megan approaches counter-hegemonic representation as a practice of literary hacking a means of learning to read and strategically redeploy semiotic, discursive and genre-based codes to create textual spaces that meet the needs of marginalized communities. In particular, her work highlights the imbrication of queer and anarchist politics by engaging with desire and pleasure as central nodes through which state power is both administered and contested. A former HASTAC Scholar and California Humanities Fellow, Megan has served on the CSA Executive Committee and is a current member of the Lateral Design Collective.\