Sexuality, Race and Space: Queer Literary and Cultural Theory
A Doctoral Seminar at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Summer 2013.
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Schedule
Week 1: Foundations
Week 2: Queer Geographies
Week 3: Theorizing Queer through Transnational Women of Color Feminisms
Week 4: New Directions in Queer Studies
Summaries
Week 1
Foucault on Biopower
Stoler (Kat)
Sedgwick: “Queer and Now” (Powers)
Berlant and Warner “Sex in Public” (Shoemaker)
Judith Butler (Shaner)
Judith Butler’s Critically Queer (Jacoby)
Summary of The Introduction to What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now? By David L. Eng, Judith Halberstam and Jose Esteban Munoz
WHAT’S QUEER ABOUT QUEER STUDIES NOW? (Warmington)
“What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now?” (Warmington)
Halley and Parker: After Sex? – (T. Kirk)
Kranidis-The Relevance of Race for Study of Sexuality
Week 2
Delany, Times Square Blue (Jacoby)
Kranidis M-Delaney
Times Square Red (Allen)
In a Queer Time and Place/Brandon Archive (Warmington)
T. Kirk – What’s That Smell? – Judith Halberstam
What’s That Smell? Halberstam (Shoemaker)
Munoz: Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics.
T S Redmond’s Summary of Herring
Fun Home- Hummel
Powers — Fun Home Summary
Kranidis M Summary -Relocations-
Tongson Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries Summary/Susan Petrole
Week 3
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Cohen summary (Allen)
Cohen Summary (Hummel)
Kranidis-Aberrations in Black
Kranidis-Aberrations in Black
Nick Shaner: Ferguson Summary
The Combahee River Collective Statement Summary (Powers)
TS Redmond’s Summary of Audre Lorde’s Zami
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Susan Petrole)
Lorde Summary- “Uses of the Erotic” (Hummel)
Uses of the Erotic (Jacoby)
Alexander “Pedagogies of Crossing” (Shoemaker)
Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Culture (Warmington)
Tinsley Summary (Allen)
Hopkinson – Summary – (T. Kirk)
“Green, Pink, and Lavender” Gaard (Shoemaker)
Cape Queer? A Case Study of Provincetown (Warmington)
Week 4
Morgensen Summary-Nick Shaner
Morgensen Summary-Petrole
Puar’s Homonationalism (Jacoby)
Puar- Assemblage (Hummel)
T S Redmond’s Summary of Mel Y. Chen’s “Toxic Animacies”
Puar, Assemblage (Powers)
Puar – Homonationalism – (KIRK)
Syntheses
Allen
Allen Synthesis One: Performance and Identity
Allen Synthesis Three: Where and What is Home?
Allen Synthesis Two: Thoughts on Place, Space, and Change
Hummel
Birth in the Closet-Synthesis #3 (Hummel)
Hummel Synthesis #2:Re-vising the Suburbs: A Tale of Whoa
Synthesis #1: “Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball”: Halloween in the Castro, a Love Story
Jacoby
#2 Queer Politics in Rural Nebraska
#3 Henry David Hwang’s Queer Diaspora in M. Butterfly
Uniformed Gender: Challenging the Social Constructs of a Subculture.
Kirk
Kirk – Synthesis 3: The Power of Queer Imaginings
Synthesis 2 – Queer Identities, Temporalities, and Geographies
Kirk synthesis 1
Kranidis
Kranidis M synthesis 1
Kranidis-Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kranidis-Synthesis 3- Holy Terrors
Maria K-synthesis one
Petrole
Susan Petrole-Synthesis 1
Synthesis 2-Susan Petrole
Synthesis 3-Petrole
Powers
Synthesis #1: Queer Hearts Resurrected: The Socially Corrupted Undead Bodies of In the Flesh
Synthesis #2: Reflections on The Polymath or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman
Synthesis #3: Suppressing and Igniting Lesbian Desire in But I’m a Cheerleader
Redmond
T S Redmond’s Week Three Synthesis
T. S. Redmond: Week 1 Synthesis
TS Redmond’s Week Two Synthesis
Shaner
Synthesis One: Shifting Paradigms in Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volumes One and Two
Synthesis Three: Queer Imaginings in Melville’s Moby Dick
Synthesis Two: Queer Studies in a Transnational Context
Shoemaker
How Queer is Dr. Strangelove?
Queering the Workplace
Re-centering Race in My Beautiful Launderette
Spece
Synthesis 3: ‘Meditation: “Prodesse quam conspici”‘
Warmington
Synthesis Two
Synthesis Three
Warmington Synthesis Week One
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