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.