FW: Jane Gallop lecture

[Dina Georgis]

Hi everyone,

I hope a lot of you can join me to the Jane Gallop lecture . She should be very interesting.

Best,
Dina


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Dina Georgis
Assistant Professor
Women and Gender Studies Institute
University of Toronto
40 Willcocks St.
Toronto, ON, M5S1C6
416 978 4671

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From: Jen Gilbert <JGil...@edu.yorku.ca>
Date:  Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:35 -0500
To: Dina Georgis <dina.g...@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Jane Gallop lecture

Hi Dina,

Would you mind sending this announcement of Jane Gallop’s lecture around to your students?


Jane Gallop
"Precocious Jouissance: Roland Barthes, Amatory Maladjustment, and Emotion"

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
2:30pm until 4:30pm

Harry Crowe Room, Atkinson, York University

Description

 In this lecture Jane Gallop returns to one of her theoretical touchstones, The Pleasure of the Text, in order to frame Roland Barthes as a queer theorist avant la lettre. In 1973 Barthes outlines and advocates an anti-normative, anti-institutional erotics that celebrates the reader’s perversity. Gallop connects her reading of Barthes’ celebration of perversity, now over 30 years old, to contemporary discussions of queer temporality. While it is well known that Barthes understands readerly pleasure according to the model of sexual perversion, Gallop shows how Barthes surprisingly advocates a kind of sexual dysfunction.  While both perversion and dysfunction are part of the pathologization of difference in sexuality, it seems easier and less radical to celebrate perversion – which has a transgressive cultural and theoretical history – than to expand the affirmation of sexual otherness beyond perversion to dysfunction. Gallop explores these linkages between texts, bodies, failure, and bliss, with her characteristic attentiveness to close reading and intellectual bravado.


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