GWS 395

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Intermediate Topics GWS

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Credit: 3 hours.

Approved for letter and S/U grading. May be repeated in the same term to a maximum of 9 hours; may be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 12 hours.

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GWS 395 class schedule data for fall 2022
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
77115	Lecture-Discussion	D	12:00PM -1:15PM	MW	137 Henry Administration Bldg	Somerville, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Topics in LGBT Lit and Film Section Info: FA22 GWS 395 / ENGL 325, Professor Siobhan Somerville Topic: Queer Migrations This course invites you to explore queer studies approaches to narratives of migration in fiction, memoir, and film. We will explore: (1) how migration by LGBTQ people has been represented (whether between urban and rural spaces, across national borders, across racialized and gendered boundaries); and (2) how certain migrations might themselves be understood as queer (in the sense of being non-normative). How does migration shape the entangled experiences of sexuality, race, gender, national identity, citizenship, and labor? What aesthetic choices have authors and filmmakers made in their representation of these migrations? In addition to literary texts and films, we will read selected scholarship on migration and narrative, from perspectives including queer of color critique, settler colonial studies, transnational feminist theory, queer indigenous studies, and migration studies. Meets with ENGL 325 Restriction(s): Not intended for Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
73539	Lecture-Discussion	EV	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	336 Davenport Hall	Velez, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Latinx Feminisms Section Info: Meets w/ LLS 396 Velez, Emma Fall 2021 This course examines historical and contemporary Latinx feminist thinking in its complex and uneven genealogies. As a category, “Latinx” spans myriad geographical, cultural, and political contexts. In order to maintain these complexities, tensions, and affinities, we will consider texts from a range differently situated thinkers to think more deeply with and about Latinx feminisms. We begin in Unit 1 by considering the multiplicity of Latinx identities and their relationship to Latinidad. We consider the “X” in Latinx as a site of woundedness, the racial dimensions of Latinx identity, and the complicated relationship between Latinidad and other intersecting identities, paying special attention to Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ identity and experience. In Unit 2, we turn our thinking to Latinx bodies in motion through geopolitical forces such as borders and consider how Latinx feminists’ attention to multiplicity and in-betweenness that complicates easy binaries between North/South. Unit 3 examines Latinx feminist critiques of Empire and the legacies of colonization which include the imposition of binary gender systems. In particular, we will consider how Latinx feminists have developed a unique tradition of decolonial feminism in their calls for decolonial imaginaries and decolonizing coalitions. The course ends as we put our own decolonial imaginaries to work through our final podcast project that responds to the idea that otro mundo es posible/another world is possible.
77409	Lecture-Discussion	JD	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	103 1207 W Oregon	de la Garza, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Queer Latinex Literature