Research and Writing
My research focused on gender, sexuality, communities, and pedagogies applies a critical lens to social change processes. Below is a listing of my research and writing, in sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and pedagogical fields. I welcome your email should you need access to my writing!
Book and book chapters
Forstie, Clare. 2022. Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community. NYU Press. Link to book.
Forstie, Clare. 2024. “Ambivalent in a Good Way: On Both Staying in and Leaving Academia.” Chapter in Higher Ed Careers Beyond the Professoriate: Pathways for Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM PhDs. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
Forstie, Clare. 2021. “After closing time: Ambivalence in Remembering a Small-City Lesbian Bar.” Pp 130-142 in Queer Nightlife, edited by Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Forstie, Clare. 2016. “Trigger Warnings.” Pp. 421-433 in Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education: An International Guide for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Nelson M. Rodriguez, Wayne J. Martino, Jennifer C. Ingrey, and Edward Brockenbrough. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Forstie, Clare. 2014. “‘Bittersweet’ Emotions, Identities, and Sexualities: Insights from a Lesbian Community Space.” Pp. 183-200 in Selves, Symbols and Sexualities: An Interactionist Anthology, edited by Staci Newmahr and Thomas Weinberg. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Peer-reviewed articles
Forstie, Clare. 2020. “Theory Making from the Middle: Researching LGBTQ Communities in Small Cities.” City & Community 19(1):153–68.
Forstie, Clare. 2020. “Disappearing Dykes? Post-Lesbian Discourse and Shifting Identities and Communities.” Journal of Homosexuality 67(12):1760–78.
Forstie, Clare. 2018. “Ambivalently post-lesbian: LBQ friendships in the rural Midwest.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 22(1):54-66.
Forstie, Clare. 2017. “A New Framing for an Old Sociology of Intimacy.” Sociology Compass 11(4):1-14.
Forstie, Clare and Gary Alan Fine. 2017. “Signaling Perversion: Senator David Walsh and the Politics of Euphemism and Dysphemism.” Sexualities 20(7):772-792.
Lisa-Jo van den Scott, Clare Forstie, and Savina Balasubramanian. 2015. “Shining Stars, Blindsides, and ‘Real’ Realities: Exit Rituals, Eulogy Work, and Allegories in Reality Television.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 44(4):417-449.
Forstie, Clare. 2012. “From Rosy to Regrettable: Mixed Nostalgia and the Meanings of Jell-O Salad.” 2012. Digest: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food and Foodways. American Folklore Society: Foodways Section. Link to article.
Peer-reviewed teaching resources
Primary author. 2024. "Strategies to Support Challenging Conversations in the Classroom." Link to web resource.
Primary author. 2023. “AI and ChatGPT in Teaching: Context and Strategies.” Link to Google doc resource.
Co-author and facilitator. 2022. “Small Teaching Changes in Times of Burnout” video series. Link to web resource.
Book reviews and other writing
Review of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby. 2024. Middle West Review 10(2). Link to DOI.
Review of Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer by Mairead Sullivan. 2023. Journal of Lesbian Studies 28(2): 366-371. Link to DOI.
“Sexual identity.” 2020. Peer-reviewed entry in Oxford Bibliographies.
Forstie, Clare. “When Your Class Materials are Posted Online.” Teaching/Learning Matters 46(4): 11-12.