ENGL 6633 - [Q and A: Asian American Gender and Sexuality]

(crosslisted) AAS 6633

Fall or Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Student option grading.

J. Hu Pegues.

This graduate seminar examines Asian American racialization, gender, and sexuality. Q & A marks several meanings, the first being the intersectional subjectivity of Queer and Asian. Q & A also signals the questions and answers that emanate from queer and Asian considerations. How might we view “queer” and “Asian” within multiply entangled intellectual genealogies, political formations, and relational socialities? Where is the queer within Asian American studies, and what horizon of possibilities is afforded by a queering of Asian American studies? Conversely, how does Asian racialization complicate queer studies, particularly in engagement with or in addition to queer of color critique? Beyond, how might we locate queer Asian influences in fields of study including disability studies, performance studies, and environmental studies?