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Thinking Gender in the Interstices

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Friday, October 28, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
C. Riley Snorton
Race and the Global Humanities Lecture Series

The Program in Literature
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Race and the Global Humanities Lecture Series presents

C. Riley Snorton

Thinking Gender in the Interstices

Friday, October 28, 2022
4:00 - 5:30pm
Room 225, Friedl Building

Drawing on 19th century U.S. military history, this talk expounds on Hortense Spillers' theory of the interstitial to attend to the plurality and irreducibility of racialized gender in the archive and its remediations.

C. Riley Snorton is a professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of two books--Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (UMP 2014) and Black on Both Sides; A Racial History of Trans Identity (UMP 2017). He is also the co-editor of Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value (MIT/New Museum 2020) and The Flesh of the Matter: Writings Inspired by the Thought of Hortense Spillers, forthcoming with Vanderbilt University Press. Snorton is the co-editor of GLQ with Chandan Reddy.

For more information, please contact Maria Maschauer at mamascha@duke.edu