Michael Lynch Distinguished Lecturer Series
This visitor series invites a prominent scholar within the fields of queer, feminist, and sexuality studies to give a guest lecture that is free to the public.
2022 – 2023
La Marr Jurelle Bruce
How She Goes Mad without Losing Her Mind: A Portrait of the Artist as a Mad Black Woman
2021 – 2022
Keguro Macharia in conversation with Deb Cowen and Nikoli Attai
Suture: Notes on Method
Past Visitors
2020-2021
Lauren Berlant in conversation with Rebecca Wanzo and Dana Luciano
The Unfinished Business of Cruel Optimism: Crisis, Affect, Sentimentality
2019-2020
Karen Tongson
Lost in Transposition, or Karaoke for White Men
Amber Musser
Brown Jouissance, Molecular Intimacies, and Kara Walker’s A Subtlety
2018
Elizabeth Freeman
Queer Temporality in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” and Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha”
Jordy Rosenberg
Confessions of the Fox reading
