New article: “The Iconography of an All-American Icon: Sailors, Homoeroticism, and Mid-Century Queer Cultural Politics.”

Kel Karpinski, Assistant Professor, Information Technology & Interlibrary Loan Librarian, recently published an article: “The Iconography of an All-American Icon: Sailors, Homoeroticism, and Mid-Century Queer Cultural Politics.” The Journal of American Culture 45, no. 4 (2022): 440–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13419

Describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
My research looks at sailors in the United States in the 1950s and 60s, and how the sailor has become a gay icon.