Through case studies of key texts across the history of queer inquiry, this article analyzes the temporality, affectivity, and politicization of the term queer in its academic usages. I argue that despite the frequency with which queer inquiry has described itself as uncommitted to its pasts and by definition attuned to questions of immediate political urgency, it remains affectively haunted by the historical and political moment of the U.S. 1990s in which it emerged. I close by offering
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