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Diese öffentliche Ringvorlesung beleuchtet aktuelle Diskussionen und Debatten in den Queer Studies aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive. Um Einblicke in die Position dieses relativ neuen Forschungsfeldes innerhalb der Wissenschaft zu geben, werden Wissenschaftler*innen der FAU ihre aktuellen Forschungsarbeiten zu queeren Themen vorstellen. Damit wird die queere Forschung innerhalb und außerhalb unserer Universität erstmalig gebündelt und sichtbar gemacht. Dies ist angesichts der anhaltenden queer-feindlichen Politiken auf regionaler, nationaler und internationaler Ebene von besonderer Bedeutung.

Reproductive Dystopia is drawn from a book project of the same name that treats a bestselling genre of Anglophone literary fiction – the dystopian novel – and considers its cultural and political affordances. The project reveals that a significant subset of dystopian novels speak directly and eloquently to questions of both reproductive dispossession and reproductive freedom. In so doing, Reproductive Dystopia both identifies and theorizes a major dystopian sub-genre comprised of narratives set in near and far futures in which profound exploitation of the reproductive body, its processes (ovulation, gestation, parturition, lactation), and its biological products (babies, eggs, stem cells) figure centrally.

The Chair for English Cultural and Literary Studies is pleased to announce Jack Halberstam as this semester’s Researcher in Residence. Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, has not only been one of the leading experts concerning the discourses around ideas of gender, sexuality and queerness, he is one of the pioneering thinkers in this field.

On 7 November 1928, Virginia Woolf remarked about her latest novel Orlando: “I want fun. I want fantasy. I want (& this was serious) to give things their caricature value” (7 November 1928). Mission accomplished: the novel tells the fantastical story of someone who lives from Elizabethan to modern times and changes sex in between; it gallops through history, caricaturing learned biographers and eminent geniuses. The guest lecture will contextualise Orlando as an example of (high) modernist writing – and hopefully demonstrate that both modernism and Virginia Woolf are nothing to be afraid of.

Die Vortragsreihe „Identität, Liebe und Lust“ zur zeitgenössischen schwedischen Literatur basiert auf dem thematischen Schwerpunkt der 40. Göteborger Buchmesse „Drama & Kärlek och Lust“. In der Ringvorlesung werden verschiedene Facetten der vielfältigen zeitgenössischen Literatur Schwedens von s...