Topics in Transgender Studies

(4 Credits)

This course focuses on the relationship of trans and trans of color studies to the arts, critical theory in/of the humanities and culture. We will consider how trans and trans of color studies investigate and reformulate questions and concepts of gender, in addition to objects and analytics beyond gender as a primary focus of inquiry. Readings will be drawn from transgender studies as a growing and changing body of multidisciplinary scholarship and practice of the twentieth and twenty-first century. The course reflects trans and trans of color studies' multiple genealogies, across bodies of scholarship and practice of recent decades, their antecedents and affinities. These include, but are not limited to: histories, theories and practices of performance, art, transgender activism and organizing, gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, black studies, indigenous studies, queer and queer of color theories, literary studies, animal studies, environmental humanities and ecological studies, media and cultural studies, critical legal studies, critical science, medical and technology studies