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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Julia Bloch WIP: “'Womb as Plot': Conceptive Risk and Reproductive Time in Contemporary Poetry"
March 2, 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Queer Internet Studies Workshop
February 17, 2017 (All day) -
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