...Dustin Friedman Abstract This article develops a theory of postcolonial queer pedagogy through reflections on teaching nineteenth-century literature at the National University of Singapore. Students draw on their experiences living in a culture torn between liberal and illiberal tendencies...

...Donald E. Hall This article examines the challenges of addressing pedagogically the international dialogue on queer sexual identities. It focuses on the essayist's experiences preparing an anthology proposal for a queer studies volume that embraces the field in its transnational complexity...

...Donald E. Hall Cluelessness and the Queer Classroom Donald E. Hall Near the beginning of Clueless in Academe, Gerald Graff (2003: 5) writes, “Professors have been trained to think of [their students’] cluelessness as an uninteresting negative condition, a lack or a blank space...

... the ways the traditional basic writing classroom functions within this closet metaphor and how teachers and administrators might reenvision the studio model of composition as a distinctly queer space that has the potential to offer a more liberatory experience for students deemed basic writers. Copyright...

.... Queering Our Classrooms Nikolai Endres Let me start with three assumptions about a book with the title Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Teaching of English: Positions, Pedagogies, and Cul- tural Politics, published by the National Council of Teachers of English: (1) Despite a theoretical framework...

...: University of Pittsburgh Press. Britzman, Deborah P. 1995 . “Is There a Queer Pedagogy? Or, Stop Reading Straight.” Educational Theory 45 : 151 -65. Bruch, Patrick, and Richard Marback. 2002 . “Race, Literacy, and the Value of Rights Rhetoric in Composition Studies.” College Composition...

...Michael Borgstrom This article examines a central pedagogical dilemma within queer studies: with an increase in public attention to LGBT concerns (and an investment in the categories that comprise the LGBT rubric), how might we prioritize the complexities of queerness within a social context...

...A. W. Strouse The norms of professionalization, viewed through a queer lens, are seen as a means to regulate affect and to banish queer forms of pleasure—much to the detriment of the academic profession. A queer, medievalist approach may help us with the project of building happier doctoral student...

.... This is especially complex for minority subjects, including queer students and faculty. Such collections as The Teacher’s Body (edited by Freedman and Holmes) and Professions of Desire (edited by Haggerty and Zimmerman) explore the pedagogical underpinnings of the body, and Ellis Hanson’s essay in the Gay Shame...

... pressures behind the “habits of mind” structure so central to the text. We then read success against queer theory's recent turn to negative emotion, notably in Ahmed's The Promise of Happiness , Berlant's Cruel Optimism , and Halberstam's Queer Art of Failure . Our goal is to think about how the Framework...

.... Queering Our Classrooms Nikolai Endres Let me start with three assumptions about a book with the title Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Teaching of English: Positions, Pedagogies, and Cul- tural Politics, published by the National Council of Teachers of English: (1) Despite a theoretical framework...

... materials (105 6, 109). In contrast, two other approaches Andrew Kirk s strategic ambiguity and Karen Kopelson s performed neutrality are oriented more directly toward the aims of critical pedagogy. Although Kirk (2008: 3) acknowledges the vital necessity of queer visibility both inside and outside...

... identity s ambigu- ity in that class, I nonetheless assumed I had been out simply because I had not been in, because I look like a dyke and assumed then, as I do now, that in general anyone who lays eyes on me reads me as queer and that surely in the context of a women s studies class I would be read...

... is that these habits move students toward a more just future. The Cultivation of Writerly Habits Is a National Emergency Stacey Waite As a young, queer undergraduate student, I used to think writing could save the world. Over the past two decades I ve gotten more skeptical, less romantic about this notion...

... and offer students the opportunity to unlearn their desires in order to freely interrogate the university classroom itself as a site for subject production. “Teaching Queer Theory beyond the Western Classroom” describes the challenges of teaching queer theory to undergraduates in Singapore. Concerned...

... the work of feminism, critical race studies, ethnic studies, and multicul- turalism. However, the work of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and now queer studies and the work of disability studies have also extended and complicated the ways that we now think about bodies, including the teacher s body. For instance...

... and social justice by illustrating how relying on rhetoric as a hope and means for positive change can undermine aims of social justice and a critical education. By examining the queer (non)possibilities for assessment and acceptance without dependence on constant improvement and success, instructors may...

...: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance . Gainesville : University of Florida Press . TuSmith Bonnie . 2001 . “ The Significance of the ‘Multi’ in ‘Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S. ” MELUS 26.2 : 5 – 14 . Wilson James . 2001 . Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate...

...Jane Greer © 2004 Duke University Press 2004 The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. Crewe, Jonathan. 1995 . “Queering `The Yellow Wall-Paper'? Charlotte Perkins...

...Karla J. Murphy © 2004 Duke University Press 2004 The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. Crewe, Jonathan. 1995 . “Queering `The Yellow Wall-Paper'? Charlotte...