Saturday, January 21, 2012

WGSS Candidate Lecture: Zombie Porn - Jan 24th!



Please join the Dept. of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for the second of three lectures by job candidates for an Assistant Professor position in sexuality studies in our department:


Title: "Zombie Porn," Tuesday, Jan. 24, 4:30-6:00pm, 4616 French Hall

Dr. McGlotten's work focuses on the intersections of critical queer, media, and black studies, with a related interest in affect studies. Currently he is at work on a book-length manuscript, Virtual Intimacies: Media Cultures and Queer Sociality (SUNY Press, under review), and on a co-authored book, Black Genders and Sexualities: A Reader (Palgrave MacMillan, under contract, with Dana Ain-Davis). 

He has published journal articles and book chapters, including "Ordinary Intersections: Speculations on Difference, Justice, and Utopia in Black Queer Life (Transforming Anthropology: The Journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists (forthcoming 2012); "A Brief and Improper History of Queerspaces and Sexpublics in Austin, Texas" (Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (forthcoming 2012); and "Dead and Live Life: Zombies, Queers, and Online Sociality" (Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture, S. Boluk and W. Lenz, eds. McFarland Press, 2011). 

A graduate of the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin (PhD, 2005), Dr. McGlotten is currently an assistant professor at SUNY Purchase.

Please join us and spread the word!

Amy Lind, Ph.D.
Mary Ellen Heintz Associate Professor
Charles Phelps Taft Center Fellow, 2011-2012


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