The undergraduate minor in Sexuality and Gender Studies addresses human sexuality and gender as they have been conceptualized and investigated by diverse disciplines: humanities (including history and cultural studies), behavioral and social sciences, biological sciences, and visual and performance arts. Courses in the minor require students to explore scholarship and research on sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender across the lifespan, across cultures, and throughout history. Developing students' critical skills in a variety of disciplines, courses in the minor cover theories of sexuality and gender; sexual orientation; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movements; the history of sexual norms; queer theory; gender identity; and impact of gender identities and erotic orientations on the arts; etc.
Professor in Charge: Robert Caserio, Department of English (rlc25@psu.edu)
Click here to view Requirements for the Minor
Spotlights
Announcing the third and final installment of the QVC (Queer Visual Culture) lecture series:
"All Is Not Lost," a lecture by artist Patricia Cronin
Thursday, March 29, 4:30 PM 112 Borland
Who gets written into history? Who is forgotten? Why, how and what are the conditions in which eradication can occur? How is value determined? These elements coalesce at the intersection of the ivory tower and the art market that is the catalogue raisonné. Patricia Cronin will discuss her two most recent projects Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found, A Catalogue Raisonné and her acclaimed statement on gay marriage, a three ton marble mortuary statue Memorial To A Marriage.
For more information, contact Chris Reed (creed@psu.edu)
Announcing the second program in the Queer Visual Culture (QVC) series:
Sexual Difficulty in late 20th Century Art
Sarah Rich (Penn State) on Ellsworth Kelly,
Jonathan Katz (University of Buffalo) on Agnes Martin
Jennifer Doyle (University of California Riverside) on David Wojnarowicz.
February 17th 12:30 – 4:30 in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art
Sponsors: The Institute for the Arts and Humanities through the Minor in Sexuality and Gender Studies, the LGBTQA Student Support Center funded by UPAC, “Your Student Fees at Work”, the English Department, the History of Art Department, the Palmer Museum of Art.
Announcing, the first in a series “QVC: Queer Visual Culture”
A SYMPOSIUM: Varieties of Masculinity in the Renaissance
January 20th: 12:30-4:00 in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
Patricia Simons (University of Michigan), “Semen-otics: Embodied masculinity in Premodern Europe”
Charlotte Houghton (Penn State), "On the Down-Low: The Double Life of Michelangelo's Doni Tondo"
James Saslow (Queens College, City University of New York), “Plato or Dante? Michelangelo, Sodoma, and the Dawn of the Queer Imaginary”
Sponsors: The Institute for the Arts and Humanities through the Minor in Sexuality and Gender Studies, the LGBTQA Student Support Center funded by UPAC, “Your Student Fees at Work”, the English Department, the Art History Department, the Palmer Museum of Art.
For more information, please contact Chris Reed at creed@psu.edu
SGS Event: Symposium on the Biological Basis of Sexual Orientation is this Friday December 2, Heritage HUB
Wendy Moffat to present "Gay History vs Queer Theory: E.M. Forster as Case Study"
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Wendy Moffat, Professor of English at Dickinson College, is the author of A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster. The biography, just released in paperback, won the Biographers' Club Prize and was selected as an ALA Stonewall Honor Book and as a top ten choice for 2010 by Janet Maslin of the New York Times.Professor Moffat teaches modernism, narrative theory, sexuality and archival studies. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts.
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