Congratulations to our 2020 – 2021 IRWGS Graduate Fellows Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton (Department of English & Comparative Literature) and Alex Pekov (Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature). Fellows are selected annually, based on the excellence of their scholarship and their commitment to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton is a 4th year PhD candidate in the English and Comparative Literature Department whose academic research sits at the interdisciplinary intersection of feminist science studies, disability studies, critical race theory and biopolitics…
An Interview with Kalle Berggren on Masculinity and Intimate Partner Violence
By Tiana Reid, IRWGS Grad Fellow ’19 – ’20
On Wednesday February 19, 2020, Dr. Kalle Berggren of Stockholm University and Visiting Scholar at IRWGS gave a talk called “Theorizing masculinity and intimate partner violence: from radical feminism to queer temporality?” We followed up with Berggren to get a deeper sense of how discourses around violence against women fits into queer and feminist studies. Co-authored with Lucas Gottzén and Hanna Bornäs, Berggren’s “tour”…
Reflections on Ithaca Sounding 2020
By Issac Jean-Francois CC ’20
I would like to open my response by sharing my immense thanks to Professor Ellie Hisama and Richard Valitutto for inviting me to participate in Ithaca Sounding 2020. Much of my current thinking on Julius Eastman would not be possible without the unending support, guidance, and mentorship of Professors Saidiya Hartman, Ellie Hisama, and Marc Hannaford—thank you.
Spanning four days between January 30th and February 2nd, Ithaca Sounding 2020 was a conference/festival that featured the work of five…
by Ami Yoon, Student, English & Comparative Literature
As a part of the “Extinction Thresholds” lecture series, Professor Greta LaFleur (Associate Professor of American Studies, Yale University) spoke on environmental logic in theories of early sexuality in her talk, sharing work from her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). As a model of a dynamic reading practice, LaFleur’s methodology in approaching eighteenth-century narratives circulating throughout the British colonies for discussions of sexual behavior, via the…
Congratulations to our 2019 – 2020 IRWGS Graduate Fellows Diana Newby (Department of English & Comparative Literature) and Tiana Reid (Department of English & Comparative Literature). Fellows are selected annually, based on the excellence of their scholarship and their commitment to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Diana Newby is a 4th year PhD candidate in Columbia’s Department of English & Comparative Literature. Her research sits at the intersection of 19th century literature, science, and affect theory, with a particular focus on old and new materialisms…