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Gender Lecture mit Jack Halberstam: Trans*: Visual Representations of the Transgender Body

Gender Lecture 2018

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Jack Halberstam is professor of English at Columbia University’s Department of English and Comparative Literature and Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. His work has shaped Queer Theory and Queer Studies since the 1990s. Halberstam’s focus has been on critiquing the binary gender structure, which he illustrated, for instance, with the help of the “bathroom problem.” He has also worked on the exploration of failure as a critical response to the logic of capitalism and heteronormativity, and on readings of popular culture, ranging from James Bond movies to Gothic horror to Lady Gaga to animated films. Halberstam has published widely; his most well-known monographs are Female Masculinity (1998), In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005), The Queer Art of Failure (2011), and Gaga Feminism (2012).

His latest book, Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (2018), addresses the categorization and classification of trans* bodies from a historical perspective, the making and unmaking of trans* bodies, trans* kinship, the relationship of feminisms to trans* activism, and representations of trans* bodies.

The lecture will be given in English.