Schedule
Included on this page are:
The following is a tentative schedule for our readings and topics of discussion for the semester. This schedule is subject to change and will very likely be revised (new readings, less readings, etc) at some point during the semester. On the event that I change the schedule I will announce it in class and on twitter and this blog.
- Readings
- Due Dates for Assignments
The following is a tentative schedule for our readings and topics of discussion for the semester. This schedule is subject to change and will very likely be revised (new readings, less readings, etc) at some point during the semester. On the event that I change the schedule I will announce it in class and on twitter and this blog.
1. Ahmed, Sara. The Promise of Happiness.
This book will be available from the U of M Bookstore in a few weeks. We aren't reading it until 11/23.
2. Essays/Articles/Book Chapters on WebVista
These readings are available to download on our WebVista site.
*Access WebVista through MyU. Click on MyCourses and then GWSS 4790 or GLBT 3610. Log in and then click on our class again. The readings will be organized under the week we will be reading and discussing them.
3. Essays/Articles/Book Chapters/Blogs on our course blog
These readings will be posted on our blog.
September
Readings:
Readings:
5/7 QUEER PEDAGOGY
Readings:
Readings:
Readings:
26/28 QUEER/ING CHILDREN, Part One
Readings:
2/4 QUEER/ING CHILDREN, Part Two
Readings:
9/11 NO FUTURE?
Readings:
Interrogating Complicities: Postcolonial, Queer, and the Threat Of the Nonnormative
Monday, November 15- Tuesday, November 16
7 Introductions to course and each other
9 Blogging/Twitter Basics
Readings:
- Browse my Trouble Blog (especially those entries tagged under queer, queer activism, queer blogging, or queer ethics)
- Browse the Queering Theory Blog from fall 2009
- Spend some time on twitter: learn some twitter basics, check out our class twitter account or my twitter account, and read some twitter tales
- Browse my Blogging Workshop
- Read How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To)
- Check out this twitter cheat sheet
Readings:
- Rak, Julie. Excerpts from "The Digital Queer: Weblogs and Internet Identity"
- Threlkeld, Aubry. "Virtual Disruptions: traditional and new media's challenges to heteronormativity in education"
- Mitra, Rahul. "Resisting the Spectacle of Pride: Queer Indian Bloggers as Interpretive Communities"
Readings:
21/23 BLOG CLUSTER: Judith Butler Refuses Award
Readings:
- Judith Butler Refuses Prize at Berlin CSD 2010
- Transcript of Butler's refusal speech
- Where Now? From Pride Scandal to Transnational Movement
- Butler 1, Homonationalism 0
- Celebrating Refusal
- Angela Davis' youtube response
Readings:
- Pullen, Christopher and Margaret Cooper. "Introduction" to LGBT Identity and Online New Media
- Alexander, Johathan and Elizabeth Losh. "A YouTube of One's Own?":"Coming Out" Videos as Rhetorical Action"
- Cooper, Margaret and Kristina Dzara. "The Facebook Revolution: LGBT Identity and Activism"
- Gray, Mary L. "From Websites to Wal-Mart: Youth, Identity Work, and the Queering of Boundary Politics in Small Town, USA"
- Queer Blogger Roundtable: What's the Future?
5/7 QUEER PEDAGOGY
Readings:
- Rodriguez, Nelson M. "Queer Theory and the Discourse on Queer(ing) Heterosexuality: Pedagogical Considerations" in Queering Straight Teachers
- Marchese, Stephanie Jo. "May I, Please, Queer your Kids/The New Queer Pedagogy"
- Luhmann, Susanne. "Queering/Querying Pedagogy? Or, Pedagogy is a Pretty Queer Thing"
- Threlkeld, Aubry. "Virtual Disruptions: traditional and new media's challenges to heteronormativity in education"
Readings:
- Cohen, Cathy. "Punks, Bulldaggers and Welfare Queens"
- Nyong'o, Tavia. "Punk'd Theory"
- Halberstam, Judith. "What's That Smell?"
- Ford, Richard Thompson. "What's Queer About Race?"
Readings:
- Giffney, Noreen and Myra J. Hird. "Introduction: Queering the Non/Human"
- Azzarelle, Robert. "Unnatural Predators: Queer Theory Meets Environmental Studies in Bram Stoker's Dracula"
- Chromeswan. "Queer This! Sexualized Nonhumans (Vampires in True Blood)"
- Seduced by Twilight: tag heteronormavity (I encourage you to skim the whole site)
Optional:
- Halberstam, Judith. "Animating Revolt/Revolting Animation: Penguin Love, Doll Sex and the Spectacle of Queer Nonhuman"
Readings:
- Stockton, Kathryn Bond. "Introduction: Growing Sideways, or Why Children Seem to get Queerer in the 20th Century"
- Bruhm, Steven and Natasha Hurley. "Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children"
- Kincaid, James. TBA
2/4 QUEER/ING CHILDREN, Part Two
Readings:
- Bernstein, Susan David. "Transparent"
- Rowe, Michael. "What is Says About Us When a 17 month old boy is beaten to death"
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War Against Effeminate Boys"
- Ava's Queer This!: It Gets Better
- femmephane. "Why I Don't Like Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" project as a response to bullying"
- Questioning Transphobia. "Transgender People and Bullying"
- Halberstam, Judith. "Oh Bondage Up Yours! Female Masculinity and the Tomboy"
9/11 NO FUTURE?
Readings:
- "The Anti-Social Thesis in Queer Theory"
- Selections from Jose Esteban Munoz:
- from Cruising Utopia. "Introduction" (OPTIONAL) and "After Jack" (REQUIRED)
- about Cruising Utopia. Social Text: Periscope: Cruising Utopia (READ ALL 4 ENTRIES)
- from Disidentifications. "Introduction" (for DIABLOG DISCUSSION)
Interrogating Complicities: Postcolonial, Queer, and the Threat Of the Nonnormative
Monday, November 15- Tuesday, November 16
*Note: We will have class on Thursday. Please attend as many panels as you can. The panel during our class is "Plotting Resistance" 11:00-12:30, Nolte Center, Room 140.
Reading: (for DIABLOG discussion on Thursday)
Arondekar, Anjali. "Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive"
23 QUEERING FEELINGS/FEELING QUEERLY: Part One
Readings:
25 THANKSGIVING: No Class
December
30/2 QUEERING FEELINGS/FEELING QUEERLY: Part Two
Reading:
Reading:
23 QUEERING FEELINGS/FEELING QUEERLY: Part One
Readings:
- Ahmed, Sara. "Introduction: Why Happiness, Why Now?"
- Ahmed, Sara. "Feminist Killjoys" from The Promise of Happiness
25 THANKSGIVING: No Class
December
30/2 QUEERING FEELINGS/FEELING QUEERLY: Part Two
Reading:
- Warner, Michael. "An Ethics of Shame" OPTIONAL
- Ngai, Sianne. "On Disgust"
- Cvetkovitch, Ann. "Public Feelings"
- Halberstam, Judith. "Shame and White Gay Masculinity"
- Butler, Judith. "Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy"
Reading:
Ahmed, Sara. The Promise of Happiness
ASSIGNMENTS:
- "Happy Objects"
- "Unhappy Queers"
- "Happy Futures"
- "Happiness, Ethics, Possibility"
You can download this reading schedule as a pdf here.
Here are a list of due dates:
September:
17 Queer This! example and Queer This! tweet
20 Queer This! comment
22 Direct Engagement #1
27 Tweet Source, Direct Engagement Comment, Query Tweet
October
1 Query Response (as blog entry)
5 Tweet Source, TURN IN FOLDER
8 Annotated Bibliography #1
18 Direct Engagement #2, Queer This! example #2, Queer This! tweet #2
22 Tweet Source, Tracking term comment
November
1 Annotated Bibliography #2
8 Queer This! comment #2 and Query response #2
15 Reading Mash-up
16 TURN IN FOLDER
22 Direct Engagement #3, Tweet Source, Your Choice comment
December
1 Annotated Bibliography #3
6 Remix/Redux/Revisit, Queer This! comment #3, Query Response #3, Your choice
comment #2, Your Choice tweets 1/2/3
14 Reading Engagement Comment #2, TURN IN FOLDER
Where do we go to read the readings that are listed for each day?
Here's what I wrote in the schedule above (at the beginning):
2. Essays/Articles/Book Chapters on WebVista
These readings are available to download on our WebVista site.
*Access WebVista through MyU. Click on MyCourses and then GWSS 4790 or GLBT 3610. Log in and then click on our class again. The readings will be organized under the week we will be reading and discussing them.
Apart from the book we will read at the end of the semester (Ahmed) and the blog/web links listed directly on the syllabus, all of the readings are available through WebVista. If you don't know how to use WebVista, let me know. I can show you at the end of class or during my office hours.