We are proud to announce that SISS 2017 faculty will include
Dr. David Eng (University of Pennsylvania)
The SISS 2017 thematic focus originates from the call of David Eng for building analytical linkages between psychoanalysis, queer theory and ethnic studies, which he had vocalized in a number of publications. He is well-known to students of queer and critical race theories as an author of canonical books The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke, 2010) and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America
(Duke, 2001), and also as a co-editor with Jack Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz of the special issue of Social Text: What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now (2005). The SISS 2017 will particularly benefit from Eng’s expertise in queer theory, transnational racial relations, the history of law, and his analysis of race in psychoanalytic clinical cases.
Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser (Washington University)
Amber Jamilla Musser’s expertise includes three pivotal theoretical perspectives of the SISS 2017: queer theory, critical race studies, and psychoanalysis. Musser has researched and published on brown femininity, whiteness, affect, masochism, and interracial relations. Her recent book Sensational Flesh: Race, Power and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) offers an innovative methodological perspective employing masochism as a diagnostic tool to understand systemic racism, patriarchy and colonialism. Musser’s lecture will introduce students to her current work on contemporary art and the concept of brown jouissance.
Dr. Trish Salah (Queen’s University)
Trish Salah’s work is situated in the areas of postcolonial, feminist, and sexual minority literatures; comparative analysis of race and racisms; sexualities, genders and modernities; transnational cultural production; psychoanalysis and affect theory; sex work; transgender studies; and un/popular culture. Her books of poetry Wanting in Arabic (Mawenzi House, 2013) and Lyric Sexology (SPD, 2014) creatively explore diasporic trans and queer subjectivities, and employ the lyric as a lens to read transgender fantasies encoded in feminist, autobiographical, anthropological, and psychoanalytic archives. At SISS 2017, Sa
lah’s unique expertise in transgender and diasporic cultural production will be employed in the creative and experimental writing workshop on poetry, perversity and power.
Dr. Amar Wahab (York University)
Amar Wahab’s fields of expertise include two of the Institute’s key theoretical paradigms, queer theory and critical race theory, as well as inter-disciplinary areas of sociology of sexualities and transnationalism. His current research centers on sexual communities in Toronto, and on implications of sexual and racial hierarchies for citizenship and national belonging in the context of Canadian multiculturalism and neoliberalism. Therefore, Wahab’s lecture will acquaint participants with local Canadian context and will be situated at an intersection of queer studies, critical race studies and state politics. Wahab’s recent teaching experience on queer methodologies will inform his master class on critical methodology of perversion.
For more information on lecturers, go HERE. Full SISS 2017 schedule coming soon. Please view the preliminary draft schedule HERE.