Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 692T - S- Thinking with Feeling

Traditionally, feeling has been regarded as private, internal, and subjective, a barrier to the production of knowledge. By contrast, in this seminar we will foreground feminist/queer/critical race approaches in order to ask: what does thinking with feeling allow us to know? Together, we will chart the multiple genealogies of affect theory; consider the role of feeling and affectivity in the production of race, gender, dis/ability, nation, and discipline; and attend to the structures of feeling that undergird existing scholarship. While the primary aim of this class is to track the emergence of feeling as both a method and an object of minoritized thought, we will also devote substantial attention to thinking with feeling as a means of generating our own critical and creative work.

Please contact Linda Hillenbrand at lindah@umass.edu to add this course. Please specify if you are an English student or WGSS Certificate student.
This course counts as an elective for students in the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies program. This course will also fulfill a contemporary poetry literature requirement for ENGL MFA students.