by alicee • • Comments Off on Ana-Maurine Lara’s poetry book a finalist for Lambda Literary Award
March 6, 2018—Kohnjehr Woman, a book of poetry by Ana-Maurine Lara, has been nominated as a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lara, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate,…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Marie Vitulli publishes two articles on women in mathematics
Marie A. Vitulli, professor emerita of mathematics and a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate, recently published a pair of articles relevant to Women’s History Month in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 65, No. 3. One is a 25-year-long study…
by alicee • • Comments Off on New Book by Mai-Lin Cheng: “British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest”
A new book by CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng “explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest.” British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest was published in December 2017 by Bucknell University Press and co-published…
by alicee • • Comments Off on “Defective and Deficient: Thinking about ‘Bad’ Bodies” — Eli Clare
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free event Limited seating “All too many people and communities are named defective and deficient in a thousand different ways. Those words are weapons used to create ‘bad’ and disposable body-minds. Through poetry,…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Queer History Lecture features Princeton scholar Regina Kunzel
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Free & open to the public “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality” Queer History Lecture Regina Kunzel holds the Doris Stevens Chair and is professor of History and…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Priscilla Ovalle — “From Black Hair to Black Panther: Collaborative Scholarship and Thinking through Cinematic Blackness”
McKenzie Hall Room 375 1101 Kincaid St. UO Campus Join Priscilla Peña Ovalle (UO Cinema Studies) and guest Leah Aldridge (LMU School of Film and Television) as they discuss their new book projects in a talk titled “From Black Hair…