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Teaching with Queer Studies in the English Classroom

Donnerstag, 02. Juni 2022, 9-14 Uhr

This seminar is currently planned as an in-person event.

In Anglophone contexts, “queer” has developed into a kind of umbrella term for individuals who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, asexual, or in a wider sense as not heterosexual. But the term “queer” also has a significant political history, which is reflected in the field of queer theory. While queer theory frequently appears to be a rather academic discourse that tends to rely on its own complicated jargon and be far removed from actual everyday life, it actually emerged in conjunction with the HIV/AIDS activism in the late 1980s and 1990s in the USA. In its core impulses, queer theory is very much concerned with the ways in which people live in their communities and in society at large.

This seminar will have a look at ways in which impulses from queer theory can become useful tools in the English classroom to discuss societal conventions that have long been assumed to simply be “natural,” or “normal.” In this way, I aim to show how the questions that queer theory asks can productively be integrated in the course plan to reflect on the diversity of contemporary society, and to ask productive questions about current ideas of for example family, gender norms, stereotypes and tolerance, and the role of media. 

Speaker: Dr. Linda Heß, Augsburg University
Dr. Heß is a senior lecturer of American Studies at Augsburg University. Her research focuses on Environmental Studies, Queer Studies, Popular Culture & Comedy, as well as other areas within the field. Dr. Heß has spent time in Bavaria, North Rhine-Westpahlia, Hessen and the United States during her academic career.

Schedule:
9:00 Queer: An Introduction to the Concept and Some of Its History 
9:30 HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Development of Queer Theory 
10:00 Some Central Goals and Questions of Queer theory 
10:30 Coffee Break 
11:00 The Significance of Representation in Literature and Film
11:30 Queerness and Intersectionality: Thinking Several Dimensions of Diversity 
12:00 Integrating Queer Theory into the Classroom: Sample Analyses of a Novel and a Film
13:00 Open Discussion 
14:00 End

Registration fee: € 10 per teacher seminar

Please register via our registration form or online via FIBS.
FIBS: Stiftung Bayerisches Amerikahaus gGmbH


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