Apr 18, 12:30 PM: Heather Love, "The Stigma Archive"

The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Sociology Colloquium present Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania), "The Stigma Archive" Drawing on work from a book-in-progress, I examine the unacknowledged influence of Erving Goffman’s Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity in the development of a queer analytic in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I consider the significance of the deviance paradigm and observational and ecological accounts of social interaction in the development of the stigma-centric, non-identitarian field of queer theory. In this talk, I will focus on Goffman’s microanalytic readings of fictional and narrative sources. Heather Love teaches English and Gender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard), the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”), and the co-editor of a special issue of Representations (“Description Across Disciplines”). She is currently completing two book projects: one on the social science roots of queer theory (Underdogs) and another on description in the interpretive humanities and the social sciences (Practices of Description: Reading the Social in the Postwar Period). Social Science Research Building, Room 305 Free and open to the public.

Date: April 18, 2018
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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