Queer Studies Cluster
Department website: http://www.wesleyan.edu/queerstudies/
Coordinator
Queer Studies focuses on the social production and regulation of sexuality, asking: How does sexual normativity structure and shape diverse social and political institutions? What are the intersections of sexual marginality and other axes of difference (gender, race, ethnicity, disability, class, indigeneity, nation)? How does the social organization of desire produce forms of oppression and of resistance in varied places and times?
The Course Cluster in Queer Studies at Wesleyan includes courses across the humanities, the humanistic social sciences, and the interdisciplinary programs. Particular research and teaching strengths at Wesleyan include queer theory, theories of difference and embodiment (including disability and trans studies), queer of color critique, and transnational sexuality studies. Wesleyan Queer Studies courses are listed on WesMaps.
If you have questions regarding Queer Studies at Wesleyan, please contact the cluster’s coordinator, Professor Margot Weiss (mdweiss-at-wesleyan.edu).
Courses Associated with the Cluster
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Popular Culture and Social Justice: An Introduction to American Studies | ||
| Critical Queer Studies: Junior Colloquium | ||
| Biopolitics, Animality, and Posthumanism: Junior Colloquium | ||
| Introduction to Queer Studies | ||
| Histories of Modern U.S. Gender and Sexuality | ||
| Race and Medicine in America | ||
| Queer Activism and Radical Scholarship: Beyond Theory vs. Practice | ||
| Queer of Color Critique | ||
| Health, Illness, and Power in America | ||
| Sex, Money, and Power: Anthropology of Intimacy and Exchange | ||
| Repertory and Performance | ||
| Black, White, and Queer Forms and Feelings | ||
| Historicizing Early Modern Sexualities | ||
| Queer Times: Poetics, Activisms, Temporalities | ||
| Sex/Gender in Critical Perspective (FGSS Gateway) | ||
| Feminist Theories | ||
| Ethics of Embodiment (FGSS Gateway) | ||
| BioFeminisms: Science, Matter, and Agency | ||
| Waiting: Bodies, Time, Necropolitics | ||
| Queer Opera | ||
| Christianity and Sexuality | ||
| Feminist and Queer Theories of Social Reproduction | ||
| Pleasure and Power: The Sociology of Sexuality | ||
| The Future Perfect | ||
| Revolution Girl-Style Now: Queer and Feminist Performance Strategies | ||
| Friendship and Collaboration: In Theory, In Practice |