April 15, Free Public Lecture: Jacqueline Rhodes, “Queer/ed Research: Play, Affect, and Disruption in the Burkean Parlor”

What are the implications of queer theory for research and writing in rhetoric and composition? Is queer theory at odds with our best liberatory intentions? In this multimodal presentation, Jacqueline Rhodes (California State University – San Bernardino Professor of English) destabilizes the Burkean parlor metaphor in order to argue for the serious play of queer theory as a disruptive and potentially revolutionary act. This free, public lecture will take place at 5 p.m., Wednesday, April 15, in CUE 412.

Rhodes is the author of Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency: From Manifesto to Modem (SUNY, 2005) and co-author of On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (NCTE, 2014), winner of the 2015 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.

She is the guest of the Department of English Visiting Scholars Series.

 

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