Theories and Methods in Gender and Sexuality Studies

This course explores the interdisciplinary field of Gender and Sexuality Studies from its beginnings to the current state of the field. We range widely among genres and disciplines to consider how gender and sexuality is studied variously - in philosophy, literary studies, anthropology, sociology, history - attending to the abiding concerns that unite those studies, and the methodological differences that delimit them. Topics considered include queer-of-color critique, practices of queer world-making, gender-based violence and bodily vulnerability, experimental archives, and gender and sexuality as objects of university study.