GENDER AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES INSTITUTE

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, NY, USA

2020

Management and team. Structure

 

  • Co-Directors
  • Program Assistants 
  • Affiliated Faculty 
  • Professor Emeritus

Objectives

  • To be the new central intellectual home for people working in the field of gender, sexualities, and LGBTQI+ studies, providing a hub for rich and diverse forms of scholarship, creative practice, and public programming.
  • To bring together faculty and students from across the university involved with the Gender and Sexuality Studies graduate certificate and the Gender Studies undergraduate minor, as well as those teaching or taking courses in the history of feminist thought and action; masculinity studies; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies; and queer theory.

Research and results

[Publications by professors and researchers from the Institute – Books]:

W. Strouse:

  • Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision, Fordham University Press, 2021.
  • Gender Trouble Couplets: Volume 1, Punctum Books, 2019.

Abigail Perez Aguilera:

  • Feminist Decolonial Politics of the Intangible, Environmental Movements and the Non-Human in Mexico, Dissertation, Arizona State University, 2016.

Amalle Dublon:

  • Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought, Dissertation, Duke University, 2017.

Chiara Bottici:

  • Anarchafeminism: An Introduction and Guide, Bloomsbury, 2021.

Cinzia Arruzza:

  • Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, Verso, 2019 (with Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser).
  • Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism, Merlin Press, 2013.

Claire Potter:

  • “Not in Conflict, but In Coalition: Imagining Lesbians at the Center of the Second Wave.” In Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields (eds.), The Legacy of Second Wave Feminism in American Politics, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018.

Deva Woodly:

  • “Black Feminist Visions and the Politics of Healing in the Movement for Black Lives” In Ayşe Gül Altınay, Maria José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, Alisa Solomon (eds.), Women Mobilizing Memory, Columbia University Press, 2019.

Dominic Pettman:

  • Peak Libido: Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire, Polity, 2020.
  • Creaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human, University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
  • Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World), Stanford University Press, 2017.

Francesca Granata:

  • Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body. Bloomsbury, 2017.

Gina Walker:

  • The Invention of Female Biography, Routledge, 2019.

Heather Davis:

  • Plastic Matters, Duke University Press, 2022.
  • (ed.) Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.

Jeannine Tang:

  • “Contemporary Art and Critical Transgender Infrastructures” in Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton (eds.), Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, MIT Press, 2017.

Kate Eichhorn:

  • “Queer Archives: From Collections to Conceptual Framework,” in Don Romesburg (ed.), The Routledge History of Queer America, Routledge, 2018.
  • The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order, Temple University Press, 2013.

Maya Smukler:

  • Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema, Rutgers University Press, 2018.

McKenzie Wark:

  • Reverse Cowgirl, MIT Press, 2020.
  • I’m Very into You: Correspondence, 1995-1996, MIT Press, 2015 (with Kathy Acker).

Nancy Fraser:

  • Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto. Verso, 2019 (co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya).
  • Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis. Verso, 2013.

Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela:

  • Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture, Oxford University Press, 2015.

Panteá Farvid:

  • “A critical encyclopaedia of heterosex.” In K. Hall and R. Barrett (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality, Oxford University Press, 2018 (with V. Braun).

Paul Kottman:

  • Love as Human Freedom, Stanford University Press, 2017.

Rachel Schreiber:

  • “‘Breed!’: the graphic satire of the Birth Control Review,” pp. 257-274, Jane Tomey and Gillian Whiteley (eds.), Art Politics and The Pamphleteer, Bloomsbury, 2021.

Raul Rubio:

  • “Stand-up Comedy, Beyond the Stage: Mediated Ethnicity, Sexuality and Citizenship,” pp. 79-94, Eleftheria Arapoglou, Yiorgos Kalogeras and Jopi Nyman (eds.), Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media, Palgrave 2016.

Ricardo Montez:

  • Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire, Duke University Press, 2020.

Terry Williams:

  • Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm, Columbia University Press, 2017.

Theodore Kerr:

  • “After the Second Silence: AIDS Cultural Production in the United States in the Twenty-First Century,” in Raphael Gygax and Heike Munder (eds.), United by AIDS. An Anthology on Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2019.
  • “Who are the Stewards of the AIDS Archive? Sharing the Political Weight of the Intimate,” pp. 88-101, Angela Jones, Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis and Michael W. Yarbrough (eds)., The Unfinished Queer Agenda After Marriage Equality, Routledge, 2018 (with Alexandra Juhasz).

Ujju Aggarwal:

  • “After Rights: Choice and the Structure of Citizenship.” In Leela Fernandes (ed.), Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change, NYU Press, 2018.

Vincent Cianni:

  • Gays in the Military: Photographs and Interviews, Daylight Books, 2014.

Ongoing projects

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