English and Honors Students to Hold Public Symposium December 10
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| The 1992 film Basic Instinct and many other cultural texts and issues will be discussed |
Professor Robert McRuer taught two courses in the interdisciplinary field lgbt studies this fall, and students in both classes will be coming together on Saturday, December 10, to present their work-in-progress. Students from both “Transnational Queer Film Studies and LGBTQ Cultures” (English 3980) and “Intro to LGBT Studies” (Honors 2053) will be presenting at this event, which is free and open to the public. English 3980 is held every fall; this was the eighth instantiation of the class. It is simultaneously taught in Prague to students from the Czech Republic (and across Europe) by Professor Kateřina Kolářová of the Charles University Gender Studies Program. For one week each November, Professor McRuer’s students travel to Prague to meet their counterparts and to attend together the Mezipatra Queer Film Festival (Mezipatra means “mezzanine” in Czech, signifying a place in-between, in the middle). This course is offered in partnership with the Short-Term Study Abroad Program. Honors 2053 fulfills a Humanities requirement for the Honors Program; this Fall 2016 was one of the first courses that the program has offered in LGBT Studies. Students in Honors 2053 read and viewed a range of material connected to Queer Origins, Queer Spaces, and Queer Bodies.
Anna Sorensen, “It Gets Better? Music and Queer Critique”
