[Fwd: Winter Queer Course Offering] (fwd)

[Angela Leung]

Angela Leung   Undergraduate Adviser 
Department of Geography   Smith 415-B   Box 353550
Seattle, WA 98195-3550
Tel: (206) 543-7793   Fax: (206) 543-3313

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 13:23:43 -0800
From: Melissa Wensel <wensel at u.washington.edu>
To: advisers at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Fwd: Winter Queer Course Offering]

Please post this course announcement to your student lists as appropriate.
Merrill Cole will be teaching his section of ENGL 207 as an Introduction to
Queer Studies this Winter.  Students with an interest in gay and lesbian
studies, queer theory, gender studies, and related areas should be encouraged
to take advantage of this opportunity.

Melissa Wensel
English Advising

merrill cole wrote:

> 207B (Introduction to Cultural Studies)
> TTh 1:30-3:20
> Cole
> merrill at u.washington.edu
> http://faculty.washington.edu/merrill/
> "Introduction to Queer Studies."  This course will explore four
> overlapping topics.  "Coming Out and Closet Games" will begin with coming
> out narratives in fiction and film, and will also attend to the homosexual
> closet as social institution in such places as U.S. military policy
> ("Don't Ask, Don't Tell").  In "Art, Obscenity, and AIDS," we'll examine
> the political controversy that surrounded the photography of Robert
> Mapplethorpe and the work of other queer artists at the height of the
> American AIDS crisis.  With special attention to the short stories of
> Randall Kenan, "Queer Rainbow?" will focus on intersections of race and
> sexuality.  Finally, we'll look closely at very contemporary issues of
> queer assimilation in "Commodity Queer."  Now that there are ads focused
> on lesbians and gay men, and a host of homo sitcom characters, is
> queerness losing its radical edge?  "Introduction to Queer Studies" raises
> this and other questions.  During the quarter, we'll inquire into the
> politics of queer representation in a wide variety of media. Texts: Holly
> Hughes, _Clit Notes_; Randall Kenan, _Let the Dead Bury Their Dead_;
> K. M. Soehnlein, _The World of Norman Boys_; Jeanette Winterson, _Oranges
> Are Not the Only Fruit_; David Wojnarowicz, _Close to the Knives_.
>
> ______________________________
> Merrill Cole, M.F.A., Ph.D.
> http://faculty.washington.edu/merrill
> ______________________________