An interview with Professor Linda Garber about her research into lesbian historical fiction.

Books and Media Mentioned

• Garber, Linda. 2022. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Palgrave. ISBN 978-3030854164
• Cruikshank, M. (ed) 1982. Lesbian Studies: Present and Future. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 978-0935312072
• Garber, Linda. 2001. Identity Poetics: Race, Class and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory. Columbia University Press.
• Schwartz, Selby Wynn. After Sappho. (novel)
• Keen, Suzanne. 2003 Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086846 (credit for the phrase “romance of the archives” which I’ve been misattributing)
• Martinac, Paula. Out of Time. (novel)
• Davies, Stevie. Impassioned Clay. (novel)
• Friend, Catherine. The Spanish Pearl. (novel)
• Dickinson (tv series)
• Gentleman Jack (tv series)
• Arnold, June Davis. The Cook and the Carpenter. (novel)
• Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-00396-6
• Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. (novel)
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (movie)
• The Favourite (movie)
• Ammonite (movie)
• Saturday Night Live “Lesbian Period Drama” (sketch on YouTube)
• Desert of the Heart (movie) based on Jane Rule’s Desert Hearts
• A Knight’s Tale (movie)
• Giffney, Noreen, Michelle M. Sauer & Diane Watt (eds). 2011. The Lesbian Premodern. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-230-61676-9
• The Belle of Amherst (movie)
• Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories. (novel)
• Giddings, Megan. The Women Could Fly (novel)
• Korn, Gabrielle. Yours for the Taking (novel)
• Pérez, Emma. Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory (novel
• McCollum, Hilary. As a Lover (novel)
• McCollum, Hilary. Golddigger (novel)
• Gagehabib, LaVerne. The Blacksmith and the Doctor (novel)
• Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion (novel)

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)

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Links to Linda Garber Online

• Website: academic website