Category: LGBTQIA studies

February 13, 2020

Equal Gold Bands: Reflecting on Lesbian Marriage Plots

By Hannah Roche

“This theoretically sophisticated reading of three lesbian writers—Stein, Hall, and Barnes—is at once playful and serious. Roche’s insistence on the queerness of desire, romance, and love between women takes feminist modernist studies in an exciting new direction. ” ~Laura Doan,...

September 26, 2018

China Trans Formed

“After Eunuchs deftly explores how the introduction of Western biomedicine transformed understandings of gender, sexuality, and the body in Chinese contexts from the twentieth century onward.” ~Ari Heinrich, University of California, San Diego Today we are happy to bring you...

February 26, 2018

Book of the Week! Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity

This week, our featured book is Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity, by Wendy Graham. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its authors on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page. Enter our book giveaway by Friday...

May 4, 2017

Interview with Ashley Shelden, author of Unmaking Love

Ashley Shelden on her new book and the concept of love as aggressive, violent, divisive, and corrosive.

December 10, 2015

The Legacy of Eve Sedgwick

A recent article in “The New Yorker” examines the continuing influence of Eve Sedgwick and “Between Men”

November 17, 2015

Videos: Celebrating "Between Men" and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

The Center for the Humanities at CUNY has very graciously put up videos from the four different panels that convened around the publication of the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, by Eve Kosofsky...

October 23, 2015

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Between Men at 30

A special event to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary edition of “Between Men,” by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

September 4, 2015

Emanuel Levy on the Politics of Gay Films

Emanuel Levy discusses the political nature of the work of Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and John Waters.

September 3, 2015

Emanuel Levy on John Waters, Camp, and Pink Flamingos

Emanuel Levy, author of “Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters,” on John Waters’s political use of camp.

September 2, 2015

Emanuel Levy on Todd Haynes's "Carol"

Emanuel Levy, author of “Gay Directors, Gay Films?,” discusses Todd Haynes’s highly anticipated new film “Carol”.

September 1, 2015

An Interview with Emanuel Levy, author of "Gay Directors, Gay Films?"

The following is an interview with Emanuel Levy, author of Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters Question: What was your motivation for writing this book? Emanuel Levy: The notion that a...

June 26, 2015

Same-Sex Marriage – Game Over?

Read a guest post by Ludger Viefhues-Bailey on the current state of the public and political debate over marriage equality, in light of today’s Supreme Court ruling.