Gen/Sex
The Gen/Sex Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
The Gender and Sexuality Working Group (Gen/Sex) provides a regular forum for discussions related to gender, sexuality, feminism, queer and trans theory, and their intersections with other fields. The group convenes several times per semester to discuss readings and provides a space for graduate students and faculty in and outside the Penn community to present works-in-progress. Invited speakers in past years have included Leo Bersani, Stephen Best, Teresa de Lauretis, Sharon Marcus, José Esteban Muñoz, Jordy Rosenberg, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins. Occasionally, Gen/Sex will organize conferences and invite a group of scholars to Penn to collaboratively interrogate or explore the field(s) at large. The most recent of these include 2019's "Queer Urgencies" and 2013's "Queer Methods."
Gen/Sex is coordinated by Austin Svedjan. Heather K. Love serves as Faculty Mentor.
Please direct any questions or requests to be added to the listserv to svedjan@sas.upenn.edu.
Upcoming Events
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Hannah Freed-Thall (NYU): "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons"
March 21, 2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Past Events
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Introductory Meeting and Greta LaFleur Reading
September 26, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Conference - Queer Urgencies
April 5, 2019 (All day) to April 6, 2019 (All day) -
Davy Knittle, WIP: "'It’s Impossible to Say Anything New about the East Village Changing': Toward a Trans Theory of Gentrification with Eileen Myles"
January 30, 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Davis Knittle, WIP
January 30, 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Kyla Tompkins, "'Everthing 'Cept Eat Us'" from Racial Indigestion
December 4, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Anjali Arondekar, "Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive"
October 17, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Welcome Back Reading, Introduction to Alison Kafer’s Feminist, Queer, Crip
September 18, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm -
Queer Urgencies Conference Planning Meeting
September 13, 2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm -
Mecca Sullivan (Bryn Mawr), WIP: “‘Let the Madness in the Music Get to You’: Poetic Possibilities from the Black Sonic Underground (Or, ‘Sound Carries’)"
April 3, 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Carolyn Dinshaw
March 29, 2018 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm