Queer and Trans Aesthetics
CHUM 301
Spring 2020
| Section:
01
02
|
| Crosslisting:
FGSS 331, THEA 311, SOC 300, AFAM 331, AMST 326 |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies, Queer Studies |
The seminar aims to develop intersectional frameworks for analyzing the artistic production of five artists who will be participating in a Trans*Revolutions symposium at the Center for the Humanities this spring: Tourmaline (film); Vick Quezada (photography, sculpture, film, and performance); Elliot Montague (film); Texas Isaiah (photography); and Emma Frankland (performance). We will also contextualize their work in relation to other artists, such as Ana Mendieta; Rotimi Fani-Kayode; Elle Pérez; Sandie Yi; Isaac Julien; Vaginal Davis; Kent Monkman; Martine Gutierrez; Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Juliana Huxtable; Laura Aguilar; Untitled Queen; and Wu Tsang. For the primary assignment, students will have two options: 1) a research paper on one or more of the participating artists or another relevant artist; or, 2) a creative project (e.g., artwork, performance, poetry) in dialogue with the seminar's topics. Students also will have the opportunity to engage the symposium's featured artists during their visit. |
|
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
|
Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AFAM-MN)(AFAM)(AMST)(FGSS)(SOC) |
|
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Syllabus texts may include:
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders (2018)
Leticia Alvarado, Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production (2018)
C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (2017)
Tourmaline, et al., eds., Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (2017)
Joanne Barker, ed., Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (2017)
LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (2015)
Joshua Chambers-Letson, After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (2018)
Kobena Mercer, Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s (2016)
Tavia Nyong'o, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018)
Gayatri Gopinath, Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (2018)
Special issues of the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly, such as, "Trans Futures" (2019); "Trans Studies en las Américas" (2019); "The Issue of Blackness" (2017); "Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary" (2014)
Wu Tsang, Wildness (2012)
Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, Atlantic Is a Sea of Bones (2017) and Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2018)
Isaac Julien, Looking for Langston (1989) and The Attendant (1993)
|
Examinations and Assignments:
For the primary assignment, students will have two options: 1) a research paper on one or more of the participating artists or another relevant artist; or, 2) a creative project (e.g., artwork, performance, poetry) in dialogue with the seminar's topics. |
| Instructor(s): Vermeulen,Heather Times: ...W... 07:10PM-10:00PM; Location: CFH106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 3 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 2 | FR: 1 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 4 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 4 |
|
|