ABSTRACT
As an interdisciplinary program unaffiliated with any single department, the major garnered strong administrative support and attracted a broad constituency of students. A variety of courses across a range of disciplines were tailored to meet its needs, enrollments were brisk, and the number of declared majors in the program steadily increased. Since its emergence as a distinct field more than two decades ago, queer critical pedagogy has not only routinely examined the social issues that undergird its intellectual investments but has also subjected many of its own disciplinary assumptions to intense critique. By locating an analysis of queerness within LGBTQ frameworks, the class not only complicated more traditional understandings of this disciplinary relationship but also facilitated students’ burgeoning appreciation of the ways that social identities might be mutually constitutive. Readers of Howe’s text learn to construe intersex, as Hilary Malatino explains, “as a philosophical and scientific concept that powerfully constructs our notions of subjective legibility, gendered realness, and sexed materiality.”.
