Assignments

Précis Papers -- Everyone must complete at least 6 of the 10 possible short analytical summary papers; papers for Week 1 and Week 5 and Week 10 are strongly recommended of all students. Each week, précis papers are due on Saturday by noon. Papers are submitted electronically via Canvas: https://canvas.uoregon.edu/courses/47001.

Critical Context & Question Presentation -- You will be a required to sign up for an oral presentation individually or in pairs. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, summarize the main arguments, generate a critical question or two, and get class discussion started for the day. A short single-spaced half-sheet or 1-page handout copied for the whole class is encouraged. Presentations are 8-10 minutes, may include media, and each presenter must have a speaking part. Graduate students will be expected to lead a longer and more developed conversation.

Research Proposal -- As part of your Seminar Paper research and writing process, you will be required to generate a 1-page research proposal in business memo format. You will also arrange for a conference with me to go over your proposal. Proposals will be graded for clarity, detail, completion, and manuscript format. Your proposal and conference must be completed at least two weeks prior to the end of the quarter.

Seminar Paper -- The semester culminates in an 8-10 page major paper building on the critical question, claim, and research you started with your Research Proposal. The seminar paper must identify a clear topic or line of inquiry, articulate a specific analytical argument, put at least three of the course's theoretical texts in conversation, and integrate and incorporate recent, relevant academic research. Graduate students will be expected to write a 15-20 page paper with additional research.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

What is Close Reading?

Readings

Course texts are available via the UO Duck Store (or through any reputable bookseller). Course readers are available only via the Duck Store or Campus Copy. The required texts for this class are:

Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler, Eds. Keywords for American Cultural Studies (2nd Edition). New York: New York University Press, 2014. Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Ferguson, Roderick. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. New York: Vintage Books, 1978. Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Munoz, Jose Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Warner, Michael. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life. Cambridge, MA: Havard University Press, 1999. Recommended Currah, Paisley and Susan Stryker, Eds. Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014). Print. McRuer, Robert and Abby L. Wilkerson, Eds. Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. Spec. issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9.1-2 (2003). Print. Wiegman, Robyn and Elizabeth A. Wilson, Eds. Queer Theory without Antinormativity. Spec. issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 26.1 (2015). Print.

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Aultman, B. "Cisgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 61-62. Print. Butler, Judith. "The Heterosexual Matrix in 'Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire.'" Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge, 1990. 42-44. Carter, Julian. "Transition." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 235-237. Print. Delany, Samuel. "...Three, Two, One, Contact: Times Square Red." Time Square Red, Time Square Blue. New York: NYU Press, 1999. 111-199. Gerdes, Kendall. "Performativity." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 148-150. Print. Jagose, Annamarie. "The Trouble with Antinormativity." Queer Theory without Antinormativity. Spec. issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 26.1 (2015) 26-47. Print. Lennon, Erica and Brian J. Mistler. "Cisgenderism." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 63-64. Print. Love, Heather. "Doing Being Deviant: Deviance Studies, Description, and the Queer Ordinary." Queer Theory without Antinormativity. Spec. issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 26.1 (2015) 74-95. Print. Love, Heather. "Queer." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 172-176. Print. McRuer, Robert. "As Good as It Gets: Queer Theory and Critical Disability." Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. Spec. issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9.1-2 (2003) 79-105. Print. McRuer,Robert and Abby L. Wilkerson. "Introduction." Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. Spec. issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9.1-2 (2003) 1-23. Print. Morland, Iain. "Intersex." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 111-115. Print. Nordmarken, Sonny. "Microaggressions." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 129-134. Print. Puar, Jasbir K. "Disability." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 77-81. Print. Sandahl, Carrie. "Queering the Crip or Cripping the Queer?: Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance." Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. Spec. issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9.1-2 (2003) 25-56. Print. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. "Queer and Now." Tendencies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. 1-22. Serlin, David. "Crippling Masculinity: Queerness and Disability in U.S. Military Culture, 1800-1945." Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. Spec. issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 9.1-2 (2003) 149-179. Print. Stanley, Eric A. "Gender Self-Determination." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 89-91. Print. Stryker, Susan and Paisley Currah. "Introduction." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 1-18. Print. Thompkins, Avery. "Asterisk." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 26-27. Print. van Anders, Sari M. "Bio/logics." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 33-35. Print. Wiegman, Robyn. "Eve's Triangles, or Queer Studies beside Itself." Queer Theory without Antinormativity. Spec. issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 26.1 (2015) 48-73. Print. Wiegman, Robyn and Elizabeth A. Wilson. "Introduction: Antinormativity's Queer Conventions." Queer Theory without Antinormativity. Spec. issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 26.1 (2015) 1-25. Print. Williams, Cristan. "Transgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 232-234. Print.

Media

dys4ia. Anna Anthropy. 2012. http://wizardofvore.itch.io/dys4ia. Video game. Lim. Merritt Kopas. 2012. http://mkopas.net/files/Lim/. Video game. Paris is Burning. Dir. Jennie Livingston. Perf. Paris Dupree, David The Father Xtravaganza, Eileen Ford, Junior Labeija, Pepper LaBeija, Sandy Ninja, Willi Ninja, Avis Pendavis, Freddie Pendavis, Kim Pendavis, Sol Pendavis, Stevie Saint Laurent, Octavia St. Laurent, Anji Xtravaganza, Bianca Xtravaganza, Brooke Xtravaganza, Danny Xtravaganza, David Xtravaganza. Lionsgate, 2005. https://amzn.com/B007QJ89VU. Digital. Wreck-It Ralph. Dir. Rich Moore. Perf. John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman. Walt Disney Pictures, 2012. https://amzn.com/B00B2DSK06. Digital.

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