Excess, Ephemera, and the "Unlivable" Presentation Sign-up

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Instructions


 * Present the main point of your article and the ideas you found most interesting in 5-10 min., either speaking from an outline or reading from a document you write in advance. * Spend a couple of minutes focusing on the way the article brings up issues about our key terms: excess, ephemera, or the “unlivable.” * Present some significant ephemera you found through reading or in outside research, whether that is an anecdote, an artifact, a name, a line from a text, biographical details, or a bit of trivia. * Bring a handout for your classmates, which includes the bibliographic information on your article and something to help them remember what is important about the piece. This could be your outline, a summary of your presentation, a set of questions the author raises and a telling quotation, an image you analyze, or some other material that documents our class discussion.

Schedule

Introduction

T February 2 Contours of Interpretation * Daniel Harris, “The Death of Camp: Gay Men and Hollywood Diva Worship, from Reverence to Ridicule,” The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture (New York: Hyperion, 1997), 8-39.

-Presenter: Mike Wolf

TH February 4 Contexts for Queer Analysis * Alexander Doty, “Everyone’s Here for Love: Bisexuality and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon (New York: Routledge, 2000), 131-153.

Presenter: Ezra Riemer

T February 9 The “Strange Experience” of Prejudice / Queer Rebellion * Monica L. Miller, “W. E. B. Du Bois’s ‘Different’ Diasporic Race Man,” Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009)

-Presenter: Haley Thompson


 * Charles I. Nero “Queering The Souls of Black Folk,” Public Culture 17.2 (2005): 255-276.


 * Eve Sedgwick, "Introduction" to Epistemology of the Closet

TH February 11 Excessive Dominance and the Ephemerality of Power Relations * Lynn Spigel, “From the Dark Ages to the Golden Age: Women’s Memories and Television Reruns” 357-380.

Presenter: Ezra RIemer


 * Amy Villarejo, "Lesbian Rule" in Lesbian Rule

T February 16 Unlivability * Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories ed. Diana Fuss (New York: Routledge, 1991), 13-31.

Presenter: Margaret Croft

TH February 18 Foundations for “Unlivable” Lives * Robert Nedelkoff, “Remainder Table” Baffler 10: 105-117.

Presenter: Louisa Rockwell

Interpretation

T February 23 Excessive Language * Eric Savoy, “ ‘In the Cage’ and the Queer Effects of Gay History” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 28.3 (1995): 284-307.

-Presenter: Katie Huppert

TH February 25 Life as Excess * Michael Cobb, “Lonely” South Atlantic Quarterly 106.3 (2007): 445-457.

T March 2 Excessive Formalism * Kevin Ohi, “‘The novel is older, and so are the young’: On the Queerness of Style” The Henry James Review 27 (2006): 140-155.

-Presenter: Mike Wolf

TH March 4 Living in Excess of Language * Juan A. Suárez, “Queer Modernism: Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler’s The Young and Evil” Pop Modernism, 179-207.

Presenter: Louisa Rockwell

T March 9 How to Recognize Satire * Linda Mizejewski, “Camp among the Swastikas: Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and “Good Heter Stuff’” Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader ed. Fabio Cleto (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), 237-253.

-Presenter: Haley Thompson

TH March 11 How to Live the Unlivable no presentation

Theory

T March 23 What Does “Excess” Exceed? * Linda Williams, “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess,” Film Quarterly (44.4) (1991): 2- 13.

-Presenter: Katie Huppert

TH March 25Poststructural Interpretation no presentation

T March 30 Theory in Context no presentation

T April 6 Horizons of Intelligibility * Juan A. Suárez, “Joseph Cornell and the Secret Life of Things,” Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 142-175.

- Presenter: Amanda Lindsay

TH April 8 Impurity * Catherine Gunther Kodat, “Making Camp: Go Down, Moses” American Literary History 19.4 (2007): 997-1029.

T April 13 The Anti-Social *Kathleen Rowe, “Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess” Screen 31 (1990): 408-419.

TH April 15 More Remainders * Jennifer Doyle, “Jo March’s Love Poems,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 60.3 (2005): 375-402.

Criticism

T April 20 Star Excess and Self-Reflexivity * David Román, “Comment” Theatre Journal 54.3 (2002): vii-xix.

Presenter: Margaret Croft

TH April 22 Theatre as Criticism * Thomas Waugh, “A Fag-Spotter’s Guide to Eisenstein” in The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema (Duke UP, 2000) pp. 60-68.

T April 27 “Unlivable” Authorship * Suzanne W. Churchill, “Outing T. S. Eliot,” Criticism 47.1 (2005) 7–30.

Presenter: Amanda Lindsay

TH April 29 The Responsibility of the Reader * Regina Marler “Introduction” Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004), xv-xxxvii.