Associated faculty: S. Ackerman (Religion, Women’s and Gender Studies), C. G. Boggs (English, Women’s and Gender Studies), S. J. Brison (Philosophy), M. A. Bronski (Women’s and Gender Studies), A. A. Coly (African and African American Studies, Comparative Literature), K. Conley (French and Italian), M. Desjardins (Film Studies), M. R. Dietrich (Biological Sciences), V. Fuechtner (German), M. R. Goeman (Native American Studies, English), M. R. Graver (Classics), K. J. Jewell (French and Italian), M. Meyers (Women’s and Gender Studies), G. Munafo (Writing). A. Orleck (History), U. Rainer (German), I. Reyes (Spanish and Portuguese), J. J. Santa Ana (English), I. T. Schweitzer (English, Women’s and Gender Studies), B. R. Silver (English), S. Swayne (Music), J. H. Tatum (Classics), P. W. Travis (English), B. E. Will (English), M. Williamson (Classics), M. F. Zeiger (English).
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies examines the lives, experiences, and representations of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons, studying in historical, contemporary, and theoretical contexts their communities, institutions, politics, languages, art, literature, and relationships to heterosexual norms. Drawing upon interdisciplinary and multicultural resources, GLBT Studies analyzes sexuality and sexual identity as complex social and historical phenomena. GLBT courses are listed under Women’s and Gender Studies. Related courses may be found in other departments and programs, such as:
- African and African American Studies 19: Representations of African American Women in Cinema
- African and African American Studies 40: Gender Identities and Politics in Africa
- Anthropology 12: Gender and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Art History 16/80: Sex, Gender, and Identity in the Arts of the Ancient World
- Classics 10/80: Platonic Love in its Cultural Context
- College Course 4: Virtual Gender: Popular Culture and the Construction of Gender
- College Course 8: Sexuality and Science
- College Course 8: Inside Out: Prison, Women and Performance
- College Course 10: The Performative Body: Culture, Queerness, and the Limits of Genre
- Comparative Literature 67: Colonial and Post-Colonial Masculinities
- English 60: Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
- English 62: Gender and Cyberculture
- English 72: Whitman and Dickenson
- English 72: Victorian Queer: Constructing Nineteenth Century Sexualities
- English 73: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
- Film Studies 47: Women in the Film Industry
- Film Studies 47: How Hollywood Films Shaped Post World War GLBT Politics
- French 45: Masculinity/Femininity
- German 42: Gender and Sexuality in 1920’s Berlin
- History 6: Gender and Sexuality: Asians in America
- Jewish Studies 52: Judaism, Sexuality, and Queerness
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies 54: Latina Feminism: Acts of Intervention
- Native American Studies 42: Gender Issues in Native American Life
- Religion 80: The Bible, Sex, and Sexuality
- Women’s and Gender Studies 18: Introduction to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
- Women’s and Gender Studies 19.1: Queer Marriage, Hate Crimes, and Will and Grace: Contemporary Issues in GLBT Studies
- Women’s and Gender Studies 19.2: Sexuality, Identity, and Legal Theory
- Women’s and Gender Studies 20: Queer Poetries
- Women’s and Gender Studies 21.2: Fictions of Sappho
- Women’s and Gender Studies 34.3: The Masculine Mystique
- Women’s and Gender Studies 35.2: Gender Blending: Motifs of Androgyny
- Women’s and Gender Studies 53.3: He, She, or It: Reconstructing Gender in Science Fiction
- Women’s and Gender Studies 53.4: Woolfenstein
- Women’s and Gender Studies 56.1: Television and Histories of Gender
- Women’s and Gender Studies 56.2: Beatniks, Hot Rods, and the Feminine Mystique: Sex and Gender in 1950’s Hollywood Films
- Women’s and Gender Studies 61.1: Reproductive Rights and Technologies
- Women’s and Gender Studies 61.2: The Impact of AIDS on U. S. Society
- Women’s and Gender Studies 65.3: Queer Studies in Contemporary U.S. Culture
- Women’s and Gender Studies 66.1: Sexuality and Science
- Women’s and Gender Studies 67.1: Freud, Psychoanalysis, Jews and Gender