Queer Theory Annual Lecture - Prof. Lee Edelman (Tufts) on "Queerness, Figurality, and Progressive Fantasies of Collective Being"
The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) is proud to announce the launch of the ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Queer Theory Annual Lecture.
The inaugural lecture will be given virtually by Prof. Lee Edelman (Tufts) on "Queerness, Figurality, and Progressive Fantasies of Collective Being."
5-7PM on March 17, 2022 (Thursday)
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Lee Edelman is the Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. He began his academic career as a scholar of twentieth-century American poetry and has since become a central figure in the development, dissemination, and rethinking of queer theory. He is the author of Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire (1987), Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory (1994), No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004), and Sex, or the Unbearable (2014, co-authored with Lauren Berlant). His new book, Bad Education, or Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
This event is part of ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ's Bicentennial Celebration and is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and Communication Studies.