Two years ago, at the Lambda Literary awards, Edward Albee rankled more than a few attendees when in his acceptance...
“The media has replaced every institution”—Fran Lebowitz is always right, isn’t she? Yet even I think she could not foretell...
Jagose's latest project is a continuation of her study of how to separate sex from sexuality; her focus on the orgasm is born from her observation that this idealized "thing" has been accorded little critical thought in queer studies. Read More
What is compromised when one receives a graduate training?
What precisely do humanities students excel at? Abstract thinking, cerebral thought—not to mention a penchant for wildly obtuse language. None of these skills are easily translatable into careers outside academia. Read More
Renaissance queer “credible” Sarah Schulman’s new memoir Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke University Press) is part manual, part testament on how to learn from one’s ignorance. Read More
Has the cultural critic become his own worst enemy? Has the eloquence he belabors to produce through his craft been...
We are what we read, and, arguably, we are how we write.
This semester in all of my seven—yes, seven (yes, ah, “adjuncting”)—undergraduate courses I am requiring that students do a fair amount of in-class writing assignments—all handwritten. Why? Because the mind, I think, functions differently writing by hand as opposed to typing. Read More
Mel Y. Chen offers an enticing study of what is produced at the intersection of cognitive linguistics, queer of color...
Let’s be honest, great expectations of literary endeavors often result in readerly disappointment. But this is not the case with...
