Our aim in this introduction is neither to enunciate an "after-queer" vision nor to denounce queer theory. In thinking through an "after-queer", we identify and seek to account for particular habits of thought that are often associated with queer research in education and queer research about young people. We trace certain traditions that frame…

This article offers a reading of the 2006 film "The History Boys", which depicts eight male working-class grammar school students preparing for exams to enter Oxford and Cambridge and two teachers who prepare them. I read the film's subjunctive mood, which gestures to possibility and an "otherwise", as connected to an analytic of "after-queer"…

Explores the logic of ethnographic inquiry that seeks to make gay and lesbian subjects seen and heard. Focuses on participants' opinions of the course Introduction to Christianity. Theorizes the effects of religious and sexual "open secrets," or "knowledge that is present yet unarticulated," in constituting the teacher's form of instruction. (CMK)