Eileen Joy has posted a seminar syllabus and a link to a book chapter in progress on the In the Middle blog.
I want to share with everyone here two recent fruits of these projects — a book chapter-in-progress and a seminar syllabus recently proposed, with Anna Klosowska, to the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies — both of which have grown out of my readings of Foucault’s late writings, but which are tending in very different directions. The first is a draft of the talk I recently gave at the University of Western Australia, at a 2-day conference on “International Medievalism and Popular Culture,” organized by Louise D’Arcens, John Ganim, Andrew Lynch, and Stephanie Trigg. This talk, “An Improbable Manner of Being: Medieval Hagiography, Queer Studies, and Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves,” partly builds on my essay recently published in postmedieval‘s special issue on New Critical Modes, edited by Jeffrey and Cary Howie, “Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Entering the Window of My Asylum: Chaucer’s Griselda and Lars von Trier’s Bess McNeill,” but plans to also delve [as the postmedieval essay did not] into the theological biopolitics negotiated, in similar ways, in medieval hagiography and von Trier’s film [and for those interested in such a subject, I want to acknowledge my debt here to Emma Campbell’s article “Homo Sacer: Power, Life, and the Sexual Body in Old French Saints’ Lives, Exemplaria 18.2: 2006, as one initial starting point for my thinking in this vein].
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