Second Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture

Dear Friends,

Following the conference “Honoring Eve: A Symposium Celebrating the Work of Eve Kosofky Sedgwick”, held at Boston University in 2009, we inaugurated an annual lecture in Professor Sedgwick’s honor.  We hope that this new series will help nurture and inspire scholarship, discussion and activism on issues of gender and sexuality at Boston University, in the broader Boston community, and throughout academia. Professor Henry Abelove delivered the inaugural lecture, “Gay Liberation Reconsidered,” last year, and we were thrilled to have 100 enthusiastic students and faculty members in attendance.

This year’s lecture will be given by Andrew C. Parker, Professor of English at Amherst College and a pioneer in queer studies (a brief version of his bio can be found below). He was also one of Professor Sedgwick’s important collaborators and interlocutors, having co-edited with her Performativity and Performance (Routledge 1995).

Professor Parker’s lecture entitled The Age of Frankenstein: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the Temporality of Homophobia will occur on October 27^th at 5pm in the Florence and Chafetz Hillel House at 231 Bay State Road in Boston.

We hope to see you on October 27^th.

Best,

Erin Murphy, Carrie Preston, and Keith Vincent for the

The Boston University Faculty Gender & Sexuality Studies Group

Andrew Parker is Professor and Associate Chair of English at Amherst College.  He is co-editor with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick of Performance and Performativity and co-editor with Janet Halley of After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory. He has three forthcoming books: The Theorist’s Mother: Maternities from Marx to Derrida, Ventriloquisms: On the Literature of Politics, and Re-Marx: Life, in Theory.