Gen/Sex
The Gender and Sexuality Reading Group (Gen/Sex) at Penn provides a regular forum for discussions related to gender, sexuality, feminism, queer 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 Carrie Rentschler, Michael Trask, José Muñoz, Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus, and Jordana Rosenberg. The Gender and Sexuality Reading Group recently helped organize Queer Method, a conference that explored queer studies' inter- and anti-disciplinary impulses and methodological innovations, and asked what the tangible parameters of a queer methodology might be. Queer Method featured talks by Alison Bechdel and a host of scholars in the field. The Gen/Sex coordinators for the 2021–2022 academic year are Rosed Serrano (rns@sas.upenn.edu) and Liz Rose (lizrose@sas.upenn.edu). Please contact us with any questions or to be added to the listserv.
Past Events
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Jasbir Puar's "Bodies with new Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled" (with Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group)
February 16, 2017 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm -
Gen/Sex, Latitudes, Alice Paul Center, LGBT Center: Trish Salah, “Trans Literatures: Notes Towards Their Emergence.”
February 10, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
Erin Markey: Boner Killer
December 1, 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:30pm -
Graduate Student Colloquium, Julia Cox "Never a Wasted Hum: The Freedom Singing of Fannie Lou Hamer" and Mary Zaborskis “Displacing Black Juvenile Delinquent Girls from Sexuality, Futurity, and Home in the Virginia Home Industrial School.”
November 30, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
S. Pearl Brilmyer (Penn) Frog Faced: Spontaneity and Character from Eliot to Stein
November 15, 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm -
WIP w/ Carissa Harris (Temple English), “‘Felawe Masculinity’: Teaching Rape Culture in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.”
November 1, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
GSWS: Clare Mullaney and Maria Murphy, Graduate Student Colloquium
October 26, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm -
WIP with Maria Murphy (Penn Musicology), "The Political Ethos of Silence: Sonic Action and Inaction During the Early Years of the AIDS Epidemic."
October 4, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Gen/Sex(y) Fall Mixer
September 14, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Kirk Fiereck (GSWS, Penn)
"The Financialization of Health: Surplus Risk, Race, and Pharmocratic Reason in Global Health."February 8, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm