Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasures Empowering Marginalized People

Erotic displays of marginalized people in medieval contexts, such as Santiago García and David Rubín’s Beowulf, Lil Nas X’s ＂Montero,＂ Patience Agbabi’s ＂The Kiss,＂, direct sexual desires towards social justice. It is about sexual liberation from oppressive disciplines by means of representation in popular culture

Elan Justice Pavlinich is a Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA, where he teaches medieval and early modern literatures and medievalisms. His publications include cognitive approaches to the Old English Boethius and feminist approaches to Disney’s medievalisms.