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Queer Asian Pacific American Literature — LIT2529.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 4
To be LGBTQIA and AAPI is to occupy two disparate, marginalized identities that seem constantly to be shifting. What might the literature of this intersection teach us about larger questions of community, belonging, and resistance? This 2000-level class attempts to locate a Queer Asian Pacific America through literature, from the work of early Chinese American lesbian poets

Queer Asian Pacific American Literature — LIT2529.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Franny Choi
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

To be LGBTQIA and AAPI is to occupy two disparate, marginalized identities that seem to be be in constant flux. What might the literature of this intersection teach us about larger questions of community, belonging, and resistance? This 2000-level class attempts to locate a Queer Asian Pacific America through literature, from Chinese American lesbian poets of the 1980s to

Literature Society Culture and Thought

Queer Asian Pacific American Literature — LIT2529.01) (cancelled 4/23/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 4
To be LGBTQIA and AAPI is to occupy two disparate, marginalized identities that seem constantly to be shifting. What might the literature of this intersection teach us about larger questions of community, belonging, and resistance? This 2000-level class attempts to locate a Queer Asian Pacific America through literature, from the work of early Chinese American lesbian poets
Literature Society Culture and Thought

Queer Feminist Sculpture: The Space Between Us — APA4158.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Caroline Woolard, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
In this seven-week seminar and studio, students will produce creative, self-directed projects across media (video, sound, sculpture, etc.) that deal with the space between us, or proxemics, the study of personal and interpersonal spatial politics. The seminar will center artists Jeff Kasper and Chloe Bass, in particular Kasper's wrestling embrace, a customizable workshop co
CAPA

Queer French — FRE4805.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this advanced course, we will examine French culture's engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied will include Marguerite de Navarre, l'Abbé de Choisy, Diderot, Monique Wittig, Virginie
Languages

Queer French — FRE4805.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this advanced course, we will examine French culture’s engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs, Montaigne,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Queer French — FRE4805.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 4
In this advanced course, we will examine French culture's engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Louise Labé, Madeleine de l’Aubespine, Montaigne,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Queer French (in English) — FRE2109.02

Spring 2025
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 2
In this course, we will examine French culture’s engagement with questions of sexuality and gender, with a focus on authors, artists, theorists, and others who have questioned ideas of normative sexuality from the Middle Ages through the 21st century. Authors and texts to be studied may include Marie de France, Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs, Montaigne, l’Abbé de
Cultural Studies and Languages

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, regionalist, and heteronormatively inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural colonial origins and paradoxical investment in both 'pagan' antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is
Visual Arts

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, and heteronormatively-inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and even Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural, colonial origins, and paradoxical investment in both ‘pagan’ antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is anything but
Visual Arts

Queer Renaissance — AH4114.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
A developmental, periodizing, and heteronormatively inflected approach to idiosyncratic male artist-geniuses such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian has dominated Renaissance art history. Yet given its cross-cultural, colonial origins, and paradoxical investment in both 'pagan' antiquity and Christian humanism, ‘pre-modern’ Renaissance visuality is anything but
Visual Arts

Queer Space: Desire and Sex in Public — FRE2106.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Stephen Shapiro
Credits: 1
In this course, we will examine the blurry lines separating public and private space and how they shape and influence queer sexual practices and identities. We will focus on queer sexual cultures that arose in Europe (Paris) and America from the 18th through 20th centuries as innovative models of urban sociability magnified desire and fostered experiments and new
Languages

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as César Moro, Pedro Lemebel, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Felipe Cussen, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and performative strategies to
Cultural Studies and Languages

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01) (course description updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as Pedro Lemebel, Mario Bellatin, Manuel Puig, Ana Mendieta, José Donoso, and Alejandra Pizarnik, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and
Cultural Studies and Languages

Queering Creation in the Arts of Latin America — SPA4606.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 4
For this course, we will analyze, in depth, authors such as Pedro Lemebel, Manuel Puig, Mario Bellatin, Ana Mendieta, José Donoso, and Carmen Ollé, who are representative voices of the counter cultural 20th and 21st Century Latin American literary and artistic scenery. We will discuss how different authors from diverse periods and regions develop queer textual and performative
Cultural Studies and Languages

Questing the Bizarre: Writing, Rewriting, and Un-Writing in Hispanic Literature — SPA4403.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Lena Retamoso Urbano
Credits: 4
Julio Cortázar, the Argentine writer, is interested in characters, objects, animals, sounds, experiences, circumstances, and places that help him to configure unusual literary worlds. In this course, we will explore the different ways in which his short stories, in dialogue with the works of a wide array of Latin American and Spanish writers/poets such as Augusto Monterroso,
Cultural Studies and Languages

Quick Studies — DAN4144.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
For each class, students will bring in short movement studies for performance that day. These can be made for solo or group exploration, and as soon as they are done, we will let them go and move on to the next work in the series. Throughout this practice, we will notice timing, spacing, and detail. By attending to the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, and
Dance

Quick Studies — DAN4144.02

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
For each class, students will bring in short movement studies for performance that day. These can be made for solo or group exploration, and as soon as they are done, we will let them go and move on to the next work in the series. Throughout this practice, we will notice timing, spacing, and detail. By attending to the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, and
Dance

Quick Studies — DAN4144.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
For each class, students will bring in short movement studies for performance that day. These can be made for solo or group exploration, and as soon as they are done, we will let them go and move on to the next work in the series. Throughout this practice, we will notice timing, spacing, and detail. By attending to the movement qualities, inherent technical challenges, and
Dance

Quliritaa: S/he tell a legend — VA4318.03

Spring 2023
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
Alaska Native oral forms of education, history and legend benefit from a profoundly personal relationship-based approach to one of the most important ways we connect. Verbal communication is breathing, evolving, raw with vulnerability and very much rooted in a present form of communion. Reciprocity and relationships are foundational values of Yup’ik culture, and it makes sense
Visual Arts

Race and Gender in Franco-Maghrebi Literature and Film — FRE4806.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Blase Provitola
Credits: 4
In the context of recent debates on multiculturalism and French national identity, this advanced course provides an introduction to some of the major issues impacting the French-speaking countries of North Africa and their diasporas in France. Through novels and auto-fiction, films, and other visual materials such as bandes dessinées, this course will encourage students to
Languages

Race and Mediation — MS4102.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
Media technologies, such as photography, were instrumental in establishing modern conceptions of race. But the reverse is also true—racial ideas deeply shaped our belief that media technologies have the ability to faithfully represent reality. In this advanced course, we will engage an exciting area of scholarship and artistic practice, located at the intersection of media
Society Culture and Thought

Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde — LIT4587.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 4
How does one resist the imperative to tell a neat, digestible story about racial identity? What new stories become possible when poets conduct, in Haryette Mullen’s words, “an open-ended investigation into the possibilities of language?” In this advanced literature seminar, we will read works by BIPOC writers who employ innovative methods to question, disrupt, and reimagine

Race in Publishing — LIT4599.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
That writers of color earn less than their white peers in advances and fees is anecdotally well known. But we lack exhaustive data. Gearing up for such data collection the next few years in a faculty-driven project at Bennington, this course provides an overview of the broader ethical and social landscape around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in publishing. Major
Literature