Matthew Helm: “The Televisual Proscenium: Staging the Archive in Harvey Firestein’s Torch Song Trilogy”

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Please join us for a job talk by Dr. Matthew Helm on Harvey Fierstein’s play Torch Song Trilogy (1982) and what it tells us about a disavowed queer history embedded within the medium of television. This presentation is an excerpt from a work-in-progress book, Transmediations: Media Materialism in the Archives of Queer Literature.

Monday, February 16, 2026 1:00pm to 2:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
308
251 West Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA 52242
Will Rhodes
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