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May 09, 2025
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GWS184 PO - Trans/Gender-Variant AestheticsWhen Offered: Irregularly
Instructor(s): S. Torralba
Credit: 1
This course surveys foundational and recent scholarship in trans studies and places these critical materials in dialogue with cultural productions (like literature, film/media, and visual and performance art) by gender-nonconforming artists, writers, media-makers, and performers. In this class, “trans” will act as an umbrella (if a potentially insufficient one) for multiple modalities of gender-nonnormativity, including transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and Two-Spirit identities. We will discuss how gender-variance enables contestations of colonial-imperial and racializing ideologies of gender. To these ends, we will center the intersectional dimensions of gender-variance by examining its interlocking and co-constitutive relations with race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, disability, mobility, and citizenship. Given trans studies’ critiques of academic disciplinarity and nation-based analytical frameworks, this course will embrace transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transnational approaches.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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