Courses Taught
- ENGLISH 473: Sexuality and Cinema
- ENGLISH 581/GWS 590: Seminar in Literary Theory: Queer Theory
- ENGLISH 300: Writing About Literature: Queer Reading, Queer Writing
- ENGLISH 461: American Narratives of Passing
- ENGLISH 361 P2: Women Writers in the U.S.
- WOMEN'S STUDIES 401: Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities: Theory and Method
- ENGLISH 351 Q: American Modernist Literature, 1914 TO 1945
Selected Publications
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture ( Durham , NC : Duke University Press, 2000).
Special Issues
Editor, “Queer Fictions of Race,” special issue of Modern Fiction Studies 48.4 (December 2002).
Co-editor, with Judith Roof, "Recent Lesbian Theory," special issue of Concerns (Journal of the Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association), 27.3-4 (Winter 2000).
Articles and Book Chapters
“Toward a Queer Genealogy of Naturalization Law,” American Quarterly, forthcoming.
“ Queer.” In Keywords of American Cultural Studies . Ed. Glenn Hendler and Bruce Burgett. NYU Press, forthcoming.
“Queer Loving,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.3 (2005): 355-370, in press.
"Sexual Aliens and the Racialized State : A Queer Reading of the 1952 U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act," Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings , edited by Eithne Luibhéid and Lionel Cantú. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
"The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in Early Cinema," in A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema, edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra. Durham , NC : Duke University Press, 2002.
"'The Prettiest Specimen of Boyhood': Cross-gender and Racial Disguise in Pauline E. Hopkins's Winona ." In Skin Deep, Spirit Strong:The Black Female Body in American Culture: Critical Essays, edited by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2002.
"Domestic Renovations: The Marriage Plot, the Lodging House and Lesbian Desire in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces." In Burning Down the House: Recycling the Domestic, edited by Rosemary Marangoly George, 232-256. Boulder , Colorado : Westview/Harper Collins, 1998.
"Passing Through the Closet in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces." American Literature 69.1 (March 1997): 139-166. Special issue: "Unnatural Formations: Erotics in the Making of American Cultures," edited by Michael Moon.
"Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body." Journal of the History of Sexuality 5.2 (1994): 243-66.
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