Fury: What Feminists Do with Anger and Rage

The Program in Literature presents

The Srinivas Aravamudan Annual Lecture in Critical Theory
November 2025

Elizabeth Wilson

Lecture:

Fury: What Feminists Do with Anger and Rage

Thursday, November 13, 2025
4:30pm
Friedl Building, Room 225

This lecture puts pressure on the idea-widespread in feminist scholarship-that anger and rage can be harnessed and turned knowingly towards projects of progressive political change. I will examine the sentimentalizing grammars of anger to be found in feminist literatures, and work toward a different understanding of anger, rage, and fury.

Workshop:

Negativities: Hate, Aggression, Anger

Friday, November 14, 2025
11:00am
Friedl Building, Room 225

To access the readings for the workshop, please click on this link:
https://duke.box.com/s/dniive41lw731y6f3bbn13xrt7y239qh

There has been considerable interest in queer/trans/feminist theory in reading for negativity. This workshop will examine some key psychoanalytic texts (Freud, Klein, Bion) that delineate the corrosive forces of hate, aggression, and anger.

Elizabeth A Wilson is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is currently working on a project about feminism, negativity, anger, and pathology via the writing of Valerie Solanas.

Co-sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute