Sept 1, Tuesday: 
Introduction & Syllabus
Documentary Screening: The Celluloid Closet (dirs. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, USA, 1995)
Sept 3, Thursday: 
Wittig, Monique. “The Category of Sex,” “One is Not Born a Woman,” and “The Straight Mind,” in The Straight Mind and Other Essays (Beacon Press, 1992). [Read pages 1-32]


Sept 8, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Kamasutra: A Tale of Love (dir. Mira Nair, India, 1996)
Sept 10, Thursday:
Doniger, Wendy. “The Mare’s Trap: The Nature and Culture of Sex,” in Redeeming the Kamasutra (Oxford University Press, 2016). [Read pages 125-145]

Sept 15, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (dir. Luis Buñuel, France, Italy, and Spain, 1972)
Sept 17, Thursday:
Foucault, Michel. “The Repressive Hypothesis,” in The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, translated by Robert Hurley (Pantheon Books, 1978). [Read pages 17-49]

Sept 22, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: All of Us Strangers (dir. Andrew Haigh, UK, 2023)
Sept 24, Thursday:
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “A Poem Is Being Written.” Representations, no. 17 (1987): 110–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043795.

Sept 29, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1966)
Oct 1, Thursday:
Zupančič, Alenka. “Death Drive I: Freud,” in What IS Sex? (MIT Press, 2017). [Read pages 94-106]

Oct 6, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: The Mirror (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1975)
Oct 8, Thursday:
Kristeva, Julia. “Approaching Abjection,” in Powers of Horror: An Essay On Abjection, translated by Leon S. Roudiez (Columbia University Press, 2017). [Read pages 1-18]

Oct 13, Tuesday:
NO CLASS
Oct 15, Thursday:
Spillers, Hortense J. “Interstices: A Small Drama of Words,” in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2003). [Read pages 152-175]

Oct 20, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: The Watermelon Woman (dir. Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1996)
Oct 22, Thursday:
Cohen, Cathy J. “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ1 May 1997; 3 (4): 437–465. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3-4-437

Oct 27, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Kiss of a Spider Woman(dir. Héctor Babenco, Brazil, 1985)
Oct 29, Thursday:
Edelman, Lee. “The Future is Kid Stuff,” in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive(Duke University Press, 2004). [Read pages 1-31]


Nov 3, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Tongues Untied (dir. Marlon Riggs, USA, 1989)
Nov 5, Thursday:
Bersani, Leo. “Is the Rectum A Grave,” in Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays(The University of Chicago Press, 2010). [Read pages 3-30]

 

Nov 10, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Happy Together (dir. Wong Kai-wai, Hong Kong, 1997)
Nov 12, Thursday:
Eng, David. “The Structure of Kinship,” in The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke University Press, 2010). [Read pages 58-92]

Nov 17, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Joyland (dir. Saim Sadiq, Pakistan, 2022)
Nov 19, Thursday:
1. Masood, Syeda Momina. “Of Girls, Desire, and Sacred Things,” in Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere, edited by Omar Kasmani (Duke University Press, 2023). [Read pages 23-30]
2. Bose, Brinda. “Hijra Intimacies and Inheritances,” in (Hi)Stories of Desire: Sexualities and Culture in Modern India, edited by Rajeev Kumaramkandath and Sanjay Srivastava (Cambridge University Press, 2020). [Read pages 189-206]

Nov 24, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Carol (dir. Todd Haynes, USA, 2015)
Nov 26, Thursday:
NO CLASS

Dec 1, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Margarita With a Straw (dir. Shonali Bose, India, 2014)
Dec 3, Thursday:
McRuer, Robert. “As Good As It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9, no. 1 (2003): 79-105. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/40800.

Dec 8, Tuesday:
Film for the Week: Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins, USA, 2016)
Dec 10, Thursday:
Warren, Calvin. “Onticide: Afro-pessimism, Gay N*gger #1, and Surplus Violence.” GLQ 1 June 2017; 23 (3): 391–418. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3818465