Welcome

ENGLISH 1183: WORD AND IMAGE WITH A FOCUS ON “GENDER EUPHORIA”

Course Description: A lot of us have spent a lot of the past two years staring at our  screens, but even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, questions about  our humanity have come into focus against the increased use of digital  devices. What/who do we become when we plug into cyberspace? What  possibilities exist in the digital world, and at what cost? Inspired in  part by Legacy Russell’s book Glitch Feminism, we will begin to answer this question through the analytical lens of embodied euphoria in queer cyberspace.  Over the semester, we will engage with widely varied cultural  texts—including poetry, films, games, art, theory, and more—by  contemporary trans and queer creators thinking about body, gender, land,  and joy both IRL/AFK and digitally. Their art offers the opportunity to  consider how we find (dis)embodiment through affirmation, kinship,  dejection, and resistance across cyberspace even as our virtual worlds  become more and more privatized, destructive, and censored. Through our  own writing and reflection on these texts, we will define for ourselves  how queer perspectives on virtual ecologies can guide us in our current  moment and beyond.

LITERATURES IN ENGLISH 2785: COMIC BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

Reader for Professor Greg Londe.

PERFORMING & MEDIA ARTS 3754: SPOKEN WORD AND HIPHOP

Assistant to Professor Karen Jaime.

WRITING 7100: TEACHING FIRST-YEAR WRITING

Co-facilitator for Professor David Faulkner.

 ENGLISH 1183: WORD AND IMAGE WITH A FOCUS ON “TENDER QUEER FUTURES” 

Course Description: We are living in deeply uncertain times. It is easy to sometimes feel  that the world is at the edge of apocalypse; however, there are powerful  examples of resilience, such as the Black Lives Matter uprisings, local  mutual aid activism, and coordinated responses to COVID-19. How can we  imagine futures that are visionary instead of directionless? Inspired by  José Esteban Muñoz’s seminal text Cruising Utopia and his conception of queer futurity, we will begin to answer this question through the analytical lens of tender queer futures.  Over the semester, we will engage with widely varied cultural  texts—including poetry, films, games, art, theory, and more—by  contemporary queer creators. Their art is not disruptive in the sense of  bombs, violence, and viruses; instead, their works act as a revolution  of form that pushes boundaries and demands justice. And through our own  writing and reflection on these texts, we will define for ourselves how  intimacy, humor, beauty, and grief can guide us in our current moment  and beyond.