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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.

Faculty:

Linda Bolton
Florence Boos
Corey Creekmur
Kevin Kopelson
Marie Kruger

 

Priya Kumar
Rob Latham
Kathy Lavezzo
Teresa Mangum
Claire Sponsler
Doris Witt

Links:

Sexuality Studies Program
Department of Women’s Studies
UI's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allied Union
Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries
Women’s Resource Action Network
International Programs
Crossing Borders
Border Crossings

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

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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