Jack Halberstam, "Unworlding: Queer and Trans Anarchitectures”

Jack Halberstam is professor of gender studies and English, David Feinson Professor of Humanities, and director of the Institute for Research on Gender, Women, and Sexuality at Columbia University. He is the author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, Female Masculinities, In a Queer Time & Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, The Queer Art of Failure, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance, and Wild Thing: The Disorder of Desire, as well as the co-editor of the collections “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” (Social Text), “Wildness” (SAQ), and Posthuman Bodies.

This event is part of the 2024-25 Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature and the Arts, “The Nature of Representation,” hosted by the English Department, and it is aligned with the Humanities Center theme question, “How (and why) do we represent nature.” The UR Humanities Centeroffers public events as well as intensive research and community-building programs, guided by our mission to collate and amplify humanities study. Please subscribe to the Humanities Newsletter to keep up with Center activities, and follow URHumanities on Instagram.