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WGS.250 / 21L.481 HIV/AIDS in American Culture
Study how Black queer and trans creators and activists responded to the pandemic through literature, film, and visual art.
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Dissertation Workshop in Women and Gender Studies
This course provides support for students in multiple aspects of the dissertation process, including preparation of the dissertation proposal, conducting research, and writing. Together we will establish a writing community to share resources and strategies, create individualized writing plans, and facilitate peer review and feedback. The course will be flexible to help students at different stages of the process, which might include: identifying or refining dissertation topics conducting a literature review creating a conceptual framework or research design writing a plan for completing the proposed research and disseminating the results forming a dissertation committee developing an application to receive ethics approval for human subject research preparing for the oral defense of the proposal developing a data collection plan conducting, documenting, and analyzing their research identifying an argument, developing a theory, and articulating findings in writing publishing and presenting the dissertation to relevant audiences
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Visual Transgressions: Gendered Identities in Art and Culture
In this course we will examine, analyze, contextualize, and interpret explicit and coded representations of gender, race, class, and sexual identity as manifested in art, film, exhibitions and visual culture. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship (audience), and the ways in which images reflect, inscribe, amplify, deconstruct, or challenge social and political structures that pertain to gender, race, and class. We will focus on taboo-breaking modes of art-making, as they depart from traditional (binary) social and cultural conventions of representation. We employ a variety of theoretical and methodological frameworks, ranging from iconographical analysis to feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories. Grounding our discussion in an historical overview, the course examines modern and contemporary works from diverse geographical and cultural contexts, and discusses non-European and non-U.S. forms of visual expression, focusing on the Middle East, Latin American and the African Diaspora.