DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM: Professor Kulick

The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, which is administered by the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA), offers a broad interdisciplinary investigation of gender and sexuality as keys to understanding human experience. At its core, the program encourages students to question the meanings of “male” and “female,” “masculine” and “feminine,” “straight” and “queer,” “deviant” and “normal,” in both Western and non-Western societies. Courses seek to unravel the ways gender and sexuality come into being and shape social roles and identities, as well as the ways in which other social and cultural divisions such as race, class, and ethnicity function in the experience of gender and sexuality. The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies challenges the privileging of some categories (e.g., male or heterosexual) over others, and analyzes the social and political implications of such hierarchies. The curriculum makes gender and sexuality central rather than peripheral terms of analysis and seeks to complicate what is presented as “natural” or “normal” in traditional academic curricula.

Faculty

Professors:
Dinshaw, Duggan, Kulick, Stacey

Assistant Professor:
Shah