Join our graduating GNSE majors as they present their BA theses, showcasing gender and sexuality across disciplines. Come celebrate the great work they’ve done this year!
Schedule of presentations:
• Alice May, “’To one, who yearns for sunset land’: Angelina Weld Grimké and the Poetics of Abolition”
• Brian Johnson, “A Little Too Much: The Aesthetic Troubles of Neoliberalism and ‘Trauma Porn’ in A Little Life (2015)”
• Catherine O’Carroll, “Marked and Unmarked: Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals Caught In the Double Bind of Administrative Surveillance and Classificatory Regimes in the U.S.”
• Chiara Theophile, “Headscarves, Disguises, and Fancy Dress: Clothing as a Mechanism of Female Slave Resistance in Colonial Slave Societies”
• Emilio Balderas, “Continuum: Time, Masculinity, and Death in Chicagoland’s Street Gangs”
• Imaan Yousuf, “Domesticity and Debauchery: Genre Multiplication, Archival Silence, and the Exertion of Queer Solidarity in In the Dream House”
• Janelle Hartley, "Houses, Individuals, and Generations: A Transfeminist Theory of Chosen Family"
• José Morin, “Exploring the Closet: Reconceptualizing Machismo through Masculinity and Queer Disruption”
• Max Grayzel-Ward, “The Future is Fertile: Exploring How Young Trans People Think About Reproduction”
If you need assistance to attend, please contact tbrazas@uchicago.edu.
Date: May 14, 2021
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Date: May 14, 2021
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM