GWS203

This course introduces students to a range of theoretical frames for analyzing and interpreting queer identities, queer experiences, the particular intersectionalities that structure queer experience, including queerness and race, queerness and socioeconomic class, and local and global differences in how queerness is conceptualized. The course examines the history of how queerness is understood through early queer theorists (Butler, Sedgwick) and explores contemporary accounts of queer experience and identity through theorists like Sara Ahmed or José Esteban Muñoz. We will evaluate the usefulness of queer theories through literary, film, and cultural analysis and interpretation. This course is cross listed as ENG-203. USIDG, Offered occasionally.

US Identities/Differences (USIDG)

All Years