Feminist/Queer Theories

(4 Credits)

This course seeks to provide students with a critical vocabulary through which to theorize sexuality in an intersectional and transnational frame. We will do so by reading recent work within queer and/or critical race studies that situates sexual practices, desires, and subjectivities as constitutive of formations of race, gender, nation, indigeneity, globalization and diaspora. We will focus in particular on key thematics that currently animate some of the most innovative work in field of queer studies today: indigeneity, empire, and diaspora; state violence and sexual/racial citizenship; aesthetics, visuality, and alternative archives.