Spring 2008 Courses
Past Courses
Description
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary
concentration in Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies, a rapidly growing,
multidisciplinary enterprise whose goal is the study of lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgendered peoples and their histories and cultures, as
well as the study of sexuality and its role in the deployment of cultural
and social power. Lesbian and Gay Studies is a system of inquiry that
examines the roles of same-sex desire across and among cultures and
histories. Queer Studies views sexuality not as a stable category of
identification or as merely a series of physical acts, but sees desire
itself as a cultural construction that is central to the
institutionalization and normalization of certain practices and discourses
that organize social relations and hierarchies. Together, the two constitute
a field whose best work often weaves together both types of analysis.
Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies insists on a pluralistic, multicultural, and
comparative approach in its negotiation within national, racial, ethnic, religious, economic, gender, and
age-defined communities. More than a response to this demographic imperative, this field actively seeks to
collapse fields of inquiry, to reveal contradictions and confrontations within and among disciplines, and to
suggest a new model for academic study within the university. Its development has paralleled the fields of
women's studies and race studies, emerging as a separate area of inquiry in the 1980s, although much work
was being done by individual scholars prior to that time. The various names of already institutionalized programs
in the field—"Sexuality Studies," "Queer Studies," and "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Studies"—reflect
the plurality of the field's methodological approaches.
The field traverses the arts, humanities, and the social sciences‹including literary theory, film theory, cultural
and social history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, theater, economics—as well as the natural
sciences—biology, epidemiology, immunology, genetics. Its antecedents can be traced back to the emergence of
"sexology" as a legitimate field of academic investigation and scholarship in the nineteenth century. Sexology
coincided with the institution of many now-traditional scientific and humanistic disciplines within the academy.
The rationalization of knowledge into discrete disciplines corresponded with the construction of "the homosexual"
within these newly emerging discourses as a crime, an illness, a person, and a problem to be solved. In
Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies, heterosexuality and homosexuality are viewed as identities and social statuses, as
categories of knowledge, and as languages that frame what we understand as bodies; as such, the domain of inquiry
transcends traditional disciplinary constructs and demands new forms of scholastic endeavors.
Students are required to matriculate in one of The Graduate
Center's established doctoral programs and must take the core
class, Introduction to Lesbian and Gay/Queer Studies, as well as three
electives within the Concentration's course lists.
Click here for the Graduate Center page on the LGBT studies program.
For further information, please contact:
clags@gc.cuny.edu
212-817-1955
Room 7115 of
the Graduate Center
Past Courses
Fall 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Affiliated Faculty
|
Name |
Department |
Home School |
|
Meene Alexander |
English |
GC |
|
Juan Battle |
Sociology |
Hunter |
|
Mark Blasius |
Political Science |
LaGuardia |
|
Sarah Chinn |
English |
Hunter |
|
Patricia Clough |
Sociology, Women's Studies |
Queens |
|
Rod Colvin |
Public
Management |
John Jay |
|
Kate Crehan |
Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work |
Staten Island |
|
Paisley Currah |
Political Science |
Brooklyn |
|
Mario DiGangi |
English |
Lehman |
|
Hester Eisenstein |
Sociology |
Queens |
|
Dagmar Herzog |
History |
GC |
|
Cindi Katz |
Environmental Psychology |
GC |
|
Wayne Koestenbaum |
English |
GC |
|
Catherine Lavender |
History, American Studies |
Staten Island |
|
Giancarlo Lombardi |
Modern
Languages |
Staten Island |
|
Lisa
Jean Moore |
|
Staten Island |
|
Eugenia Paulicelli |
Italian, Comp Lit, Women's Studies |
Queens |
|
Rosalind Petchesky |
Political Science |
Hunter |
|
Victoria Pitts |
Sociology |
Queens |
|
Robert Reid-Pharr |
English |
GC |
|
James Saslow |
Art
History and Theatre |
Queens |
|
Sarah Schulman |
English |
Staten Island |
|
Joseph Straus |
Music |
GC |
|
Charles Tien |
Political Science |
Hunter |
Undergraduate
LGBT Studies at CUNY
Affiliated Faculty
|
Name |
Department |
Home School |
|
Juan Battle |
Sociology |
Hunter |
|
Mark Blasius |
Political Science |
LaGuardia |
|
Sarah Chinn |
English |
Hunter |
|
Patricia Clough |
Sociology, Women's Studies |
Queens |
|
Rod Colvin |
Public
Management |
John Jay |
|
Kate Crehan |
Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work |
Staten Island |
|
Paisley Currah |
Political Science |
Brooklyn |
|
Mario DiGangi |
English |
Lehman |
|
Hester Eisenstein |
Sociology |
Queens |
|
Catherine Lavender |
History, American Studies |
Staten Island |
|
Giancarlo Lombardi |
Modern
Languages |
Staten Island |
|
Lisa
Jean Moore |
|
Staten Island |
|
Eugenia Paulicelli |
Italian, Comp Lit, Women's Studies |
Queens |
|
Rosalind Petchesky |
Political Science |
Hunter |
|
Victoria Pitts |
Sociology |
Queens |
|
James Saslow |
Art
History and Theatre |
Queens |
|
Sarah Schulman |
English |
Staten Island |
|
Charles Tien |
Political Science |
Hunter |
