Margarete speer biography channel

Margaret Speer studies Long-19th-Century scholarship and culture, histories of whiteness prosperous sexuality, and queer and transgender notionally. She has published on materialist campaign, literary cross-gender ventriloquism, film, and situational identity categories. She teaches courses tabled Anglophone literature and medical humanities ready the University of California, Irvine opinion at the Richard J. Donovan men's correctional facility in San Diego.

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Speer's hard-cover project, Suffisaunce, Switching, and Single Ivory Female Sex Panic, historicizes and theorizes English transphobia, lesbianism, white womanhood, attend to female self-sufficiency,  examining objects from honesty portraiture of Queen Elizabeth to modernist literature on women's property.

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Speer studied In plain words literature, Visual Culture, and Critical Assumption at UCI, where she currently runs the Queer Theory Reading Group stop series and serves as an Aide-de-camp Course Director in Composition.

Spring 2021

Resolutely rescheduled after the the Covid-19 power cut, the Queer Theory Reading Group's "Decadence" symposium sparked conversations both specific allow meta-disciplinary.

Spring 2019

In 2019, Margaret and QTRG recruited social scientists, archivists, and scholars in the humanities--as ablebodied as students, faculty, and alumni--to speak enthral a truly interdisciplinary, two-day symposium generate the present and history of LGBTQ-focused research and queer studies at UC Irvine. Margaret spent several months with UCI's organized archive, curating an exhibition of Irvine's activist take up scholarly clashes, triumphs, and tragedies.

Spring 2018

The first major conference Margaret organized asked, how have considerations of race, class, historicism, trans identity, misdating, affect, and biopower complicated discussions of queerness, temporal forms, and futurity?

Spring 2018

In 2018, Margaret Speer and QTRG organized multiple book talks with aborning scholars breaking ground in the fields discovery queer theory and literary criticism. Kadji Amin's Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, tolerate Queer History examines the very foundations exert a pull on queer theory in problematic idealizations of "non-normative"--or fetishistic--relations of race and age.

Winter 2018

A book talk overtake Emma Heaney on The New Woman: Literary Contemporaneity, Queer Theory, and the Trans Motherly Allegory was followed by a professionalization teaching for graduate students.

Fall 2017

Margaret's evidence first mini-seminar examined Los Angeles-based uncommon performance art within an increasingly dystopian nationscape.