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Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften

Professur für Amerikanistik

  1.  Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
  2. Fakultäten
  3. Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften
  4. Institute
  5. Anglistik/Amerikanistik
  6. Professur für Amerikanistik
  7. Gastvorträge
  8. "Not a Monolith: Queerness, Race, & Asian Americanness"
Poster for a guest lecture by Prof. Jeremy Chow (Bucknell University) on July 21st, 2022. At the top of the poster, the University's logo is shown in white on a blue background. Beneath that, in white on a red background is the title, etc. of the guest lecture. Below that, is a photograph showing dots of light ranging from pink to yellow in color in concentric circles.

Prof. Jeremy Chow (Bucknell University): "Not a Monolith: Queerness, Race, & Asian Americanness"

Thursday, July 21st, 2022, 18:00-19:30 p.m., online lecture (the Zoom call will open at 17:45)

Zoom-Call ID: 664 5220 6463

As intersectionality becomes a sticking point for scholarly inquiry, it behooves us to evaluate how intersectional thinking can inform and sometimes efface particular identity markers. This talk—which centered open discussion and debate among all participants—considered the uphill battle of thinking the intersections among queerness, race, and Asian Americanness. By considering several case studies—discriminatory slogans that circulate on queer social media, increasing Asian American hate crimes in light of COVID-19, poetry by Chen Chen, and the celebritydom of George Takei—Jeremy Chow explored the fraught tensions among intersectional identities and how they are received within an American cultural context that invariably bleeds globally. 

Jeremy Chow is an assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University, which occupies the ancestral and unceded territories of the Susquehannock peoples. His research explores the relationships among literary studies, theories of queerness, and the environmental humanities. His first book, The Queerness of Water: Violent Entanglements in Troubled Ecologies, is forthcoming from University of Virginia Press.