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Concentration: Social studies??this major can best account for the Greek, Iranian and macro textbooks...
...newly minted Ph.D. with a strong investment in the new disciplines—my research and teaching are primarily in the field of queer studies??I don’t think that such ambivalence is necessarily a problem. It is good for academics to struggle with such impossible demands: it makes them smarter. What is a problem, I’d suggest, is the synergy between academic ambivalence and institutional inertia. As in other large bureaucratic institutions, the rate of change in the university tends to be very slow. This is particularly true when what is at issue...
...Faculty have endorsed a committee on queer studies??a testament to the discipline’s significant support. To ensure the high quality of the program, it is essential that interested permanent Faculty should be on the committee and that courses included in this program do not fluctuate excessively. Today, the few courses relating to queer studies are grouped under several different departments, inhibiting students from finding related courses...
Though queer studies shares some interests with women’s studies??such as issues of gender identity and sexuality—the two ought to be separate and distinct committees. While women’s studies deal with issues confronting the female gender, queer studies includes studies of both men and women who share a particular lifestyle and confront similar issues of identity. And since women’s studies is a committee with limited resources, any further burdens upon it would hurt both programs...
...trying to foster a dialogue about how one would go about pursuing an academic interest in Queer Studies??which is a viable intellectual field,” Love said...