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The 11th<\/sup> Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Lecture in Gender & Sexuality Studies<\/p>\n

with Professor Heather Love<\/p>\n

was held on<\/p>\n

March 30, 2023<\/p>\n

A video of this talk is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Be Real: The Passion of the Self in Queer Writing\u201d<\/p>\n

The rise of queer theory around 1990 represents the convergence of two intellectual movements: post-structuralism and identity politics. The combination of philosophical skepticism about identity and investment in minority experience is the signature of queer writing. Since its inception, queer criticism has been known for its rigorous interrogation of the grounds of personhood. But it is also known for its renovation of academic style in the direction of the personal and the anecdotal. Early critics broke with scholarly convention to include narrative, slang, obscenity, song lyrics, and passages of heightened emotion. The tension between \u201csubjectless critique\u201d and self-revelation is everywhere in the field, but has mostly gone unnoticed. It is visible in two signal statements from the early 1990s. In\u00a0Gender Trouble\u00a0<\/em>(1990), Judith Butler cited Nietzsche\u2019s dictum that there is no \u201cdoer behind the deed\u201d to question the grammar of the self. At almost the same moment, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick countered a century of writing about homosexuality from a clinical distance, arguing that \u201cQueer can only signify properly in the first person.\u201d In this talk, I will address this defining tension in the field, which values both the undermining of the self and personal authenticity. \u00a0My central text will be a crucial early work of queer\/trans theory, Susan Stryker\u2019s \u201cMy Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage.\u201d Finally, I will reflect on the afterlife of this defining tension in the rise of contemporary queer autotheory.<\/p>\n

Presented by the Boston University Faculty<\/p>\n

Gender & Sexuality Studies Group<\/p>\n

With Thanks to Our Sponsors:<\/p>\n

The Boston University Center for the Humanities, The Eve Kosofsky\u00a0<\/span>Sedgwick<\/span>\u00a0Foundation and H. A.\u00a0<\/span>Sedgwick, <\/span>The Departments of English, History, Religion, Romance Studies, Sociology, and World Languages & Literature, and the Programs in African American Studies and Women\u2019s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, the Office of the Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff<\/p>\n

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