Queer Theory Lecture - Matt Brim (2022)

Queer Theory Lecture is an annual event to honor and celebrate one of queer theories most insightful scholars and foundational figures, Prof. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. She spent much of her career at Duke in the English Department, and although she moved to the City University of New York in 1997 where she taught until her passing in 2009, she left an indelible mark on the Duke community. The Gender, Sexuality and Feminist (GSF) Studies Department at Duke University hosts this event every year as a tribute to Sedgwick and as a continuation of her legacy.
This year, the department hosted Prof. Matt Brim from College of Staten Island at the City University of New York, where he teaches a variety of courses in LGBTQ literature and women's studies, with a focus on queer/class/race ideas. In his Lecture, Brim traces the relationship between queer academia’s aspirational mood and the increasing extraction and relocation of queer faculty and students from working-class places to elitist ones. Brim suggests that within this complicated dynamic the need - and the opportunity - to bolster cross-class queer studies relationships comes into focus.
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