Department of English

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.