Heather Love

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Heather Love gives a talk on "Life Outside: On the Descriptive Turn in Literature and Sociology" as part of the Theorizing program at the Kelly Writers House on September 24, 2009.

Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard, 2007). She has published widely on gender studies and queer theory, modernism and modernity, affect studies, film and visual culture, psychoanalysis, race and ethnicity, and critical theory. She is the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History ("Is There Life after Identity Politics?") and is currently at work on a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies devoted to the work of anthropologist Gayle Rubin. Her current research concerns the literary source materials for Erving Goffman's 1963 sociological classic, Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity ("The Stigma Archive").

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