Gender & Sexuality
The study of gender and sexuality is central to the research and teaching
of a number of scholars in Iowa’s English department. Whether working
in the more established area of women’s studies or in newer areas
like sexuality studies, queer theory, masculinity studies, or in some combination
of these, faculty offer courses in virtually all historical periods and in
a range of geographical areas (British, American, African, South Asian, Asian
American, and transnational). Faculty vary in their specialization and focus:
from medieval poetry, Victorian fiction, and native women's literature to
queer theory, popular culture, queer diasporas and sexualities, and postcolonial
feminist theory. Students benefit from cross-listed and related courses offered
by faculty affiliated with the Sexuality Studies Program, the Department
of Women’s Studies, and International Programs.
Selected Courses
Undergraduate:
- Literature of the American Peoples: Native Daughters Speak
- Topics in Film and Literature: Camp and Drag
- Asian American Literature: Sexuality and Gender
- Introduction to Feminist Criticism
- US Minority Women Writers
- Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies: Art Forms of Queer Identity
- Topics in Film and Popular Culture: The Vampire in Literature
and Film
- Topics in Culture and Identity: Queer Theory and Popular Culture
- Topics in Culture and Identity: Gender and Sexuality in African
Literature
- Popular Literature: Revisionist Fairy Tales
- Prose by Women Writers: Writing Vietnam
- Sex & Popular Culture in the Postwar US
- Changing Concepts of Women in Literature: Women and Aging
- 18th Century British Literature: Images of Women
- Of 'Victims,' Virgins and Widows: Contemporary South Asian Women's
Fiction
- Selected Transnational Authors: Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro
- Literature by American Women of African Descent
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Graduate:
- Seminar Victorian Literature: British Women Poets, 1850-1950
- Queer Theory
- Post-Colonial Women's Writing: Contemporary South Asian Women's
Fiction
- Feminist Approaches to Early Modern Drama
- African Literature: Gender and Modernity
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