Publications
Peer-reviewed books
- Halsema, Annemie, Katja Kwastek, and Roel van den Oever, editors. Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler. Amsterdam UP, 2021.
- Oever, Roel van den. Mama’s Boy: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
- Oever, Roel van den. “Carla en Frank van Putten, moeder en zoon: Een narratologische analyse van de Van Kooten en De Bie filmpjes.” Tijdschrift voor genderstudies, vol. 16, no. 3, 2013, pp. 44-53.
- Oever, Roel van den. “‘A Common Ear / For Our Deep Gossip’: Selfhood and Friendship in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and Frank O’Hara.” Amerikastudien, vol. 53, no. 4, 2008, pp. 521-33.
Peer-reviewed book contributions
- Oever, Roel van den. “What’s in a Name? Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Private Romeo.” Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler, edited by Annemie Halsema, Katja Kwastek, and Van den Oever, Amsterdam UP, 2021, pp. 77-88.
- Halsema, Annemie, Katja Kwastek, and Roel van den Oever. Introduction. Bodies That Still Matter: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler, edited by Halsema, Kwastek, and Van den Oever, Amsterdam UP, 2021, pp. 9-17.
Journal articles
- Oever, Roel van den. “Angels in America en het mama-isme.” Vooys: Tijdschrift voor letteren, vol. 33, no. 3, 2015, pp. 8-17.
- Oever, Roel van den. “De ultieme ‘fag-hag’? De constructie van Madonna als homo-icoon.” Raffia, vol. 14, no. 3, 2002, pp. 6-8.
Book contributions
- Oever, Roel van den. “Psychoanalysis” & “Stereotypes.” Key Terms in Comics Studies, edited by Erin La Cour, Simon Grennan, and Rik Spanjers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, p. 259 & pp. 305-06.
- Oever, Roel van den. “The English Patient After All.” Hans Bak: Man of Letters, edited by Frank Mehring, Iris Plessius, Mathilde Roza, and Laura Visser-Maessen, 2017, pp. 107-09.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Gay Male Literature.” The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by Nancy A. Naples, Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Wiley Online Library, doi: 10.1002/9781118663219.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Masculinities.” Gender: Sources, Perspectives, and Methodologies, edited by renée c. hoogland, Macmillan Reference USA, 2016, pp. 181-91.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Upstaging a Diva: Lana Turner Collapses While Frank O’Hara Remains Composed.” Wat de verbeelding niet vermag! Essays bij het afscheid van Maaike Meijer, edited by Agnes Andeweg and Lies Wesseling, Vantil, 2014, pp. 220-23.
Reviews
- Oever, Roel van den. “The (Un)bearable Lightness of Sex.” Review of Sex, or the Unbearable, by Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Criticism, vol. 59, no. 1, 2018, pp. 171-74.
- Oever, Roel van den. “A New Queer Companion for the Classroom.” Review of A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies, edited by George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 330-32.
Conference papers
- Oever, Roel van den. “Gazing at/in God’s Own Country.” Rural Imaginations, University of Amsterdam, 24 Aug. 2022.
- Swinnen, Aagje, and Roel van den Oever. “‘Masculinity Is Always in Crisis’: Late-Life Masculinity in Historical Perspective.” Farewell Colloquium for Dr. Ulrike Brunotte, Maastricht University, 15 Sep. 2021.
- Oever, Roel van den. “The Narrator in Comics Narratology.” Amsterdam Comics Conference: Drawing Yourself In and Out of It, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 17 Nov. 2018.
- Oever, Roel van den. “A Rose by Any Other Name: On Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Private Romeo, and the Suppression of Names.” Critical Theory in the Humanities: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 6 Apr. 2017.
- Kreij, Max van, and Roel van den Oever. “Holy Camp, Batman! Deconstructing the Opposition Between Seriousness and Silliness in the Batman Universe.” Amsterdam Comics Conference: Comics Interaction, University of Amsterdam, 3 July 2015.
- Oever, Roel van den. “The Jewish Mother and the Mama’s Boy in 1960s American Fiction.” The Homophobic Argument: National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 19 June 2014.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Carla en Frank van Putten vieren kerst.” Het M-woord, Maastricht University, 2 Mar. 2012.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Angels in America and Momism.” National American Studies Day: American Memory, American Forgetting, Leiden University, 1 Apr. 2011.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Room for Maneuver: The Jewish Mother Cliché in Portnoy’s Complaint (Philip Roth, 1969).” 2010 Joint GLS Symposium, Reed College, 26 June 2010.
- Oever, Roel van den. “All the Queerness You Can Eat: From Martyr to Masochist in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer (1958).” Points of Exit: (Un)conventional Representations of Parenting, Age, and Sexuality, Maastricht University, 20 Mar. 2009.
- Oever, Roel van den. “‘I Was Made in the Image of a Sissy Truck-Driver’: Homosexuality in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara.” The New York School Poets and Their World, Wesleyan University, 5 May 2006.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Frank O’Hara’s Good-Luck Charm: Complicity in a ‘Personal Poem.’” ASCA Theory Seminar Mini-Conference: Commitment in the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, 27 May 2005.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Larry Rivers’ O’Hara: A Gay Icon in the Making.” National American Studies Day, University of Amsterdam, 18 Mar. 2005.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Traces of a Dead Man: Jasper Johns’ Skin with O’Hara Poem (1963-65).” ASCA Theory Seminar Mini-Conference: World Memory, Affect and Trauma, and Sound, University of Amsterdam, 20 May 2004.
Lectures
- Oever, Roel van den. “What We Want from Representation (And Why We Can’t Have It).” VU Pride, 20 Sep. 2022.
- Oever, Roel van den. “Gender Trouble Revisited.” Design Academy Eindhoven, 20 Jan. 2022.