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 Cynthia Wu Her UB website>> Mar. 8, 7 p.m., Fenton 179 |
Mar. 28, 7 p.m., Thompson 101 |
By Brittany Neddo
Women’s History Month kicked off this past Thursday, March 1 with Filmmaker Judi Lieff and the screening of “Deaf Jam,” her documentary on deaf poets.
The celebration continues at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 5 in 105 Fenton Hall, when feminist sociologist, Victoria Pitts-Taylor, will present this year’s keynote speech, “Marked Bodies: Diversity, Difference, Deviance.”
Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program at SUNY Fredonia, all Women’s History Month events are free and open to the public.
Dr. Pitts-Taylor currently serves as a sociology professor at Queens College, CUNY and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Two of her publications are Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture and In the Flesh: the Cultural Politics of Body Modification. Some of her other published works including articles and book chapters that explore cultural aspects of the body, medicine, health and wellness. Pitts-Taylor is the editor of Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body and co-editor of Women’s Studies Quarterly. She was rewarded with an Advancement of the Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association.
Assistant Professor of American Studies at University at Buffalo, Cynthia Wu, will deliver a talk Thursday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in Fenton Hall Room 179 titled, “Cross-Gender Coalitional Politics in Asian American War Literature. Dr. Wu specializes in Asian American and comparative ethnic cultural studies, disability studies, U.S. literatures from 1865 to present, and queer of color analysis. Her published works include National Conjoinments: The Original Siamese Twins in American Literature and Culture, “Revisiting Blu’s Hanging: A Critique of Queer Transgression in the Lois-Ann Yamanaka Controversy (Meridians),” and “The Siamese Twins in Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Conflict and Reconciliation (American Literature).” Her current research, titled, “To Love and Defend: The United States Military in the Asian American Imagination” analyzes the relationship between Asian Americans and the nation-state driven by the U.S. armed forces.
The month-long series of events at SUNY Fredonia will continue Wednesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in 101 Thompson Hall with Michael Rembis and his talk titled, “Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls.” Dr. Rembis is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at University at Buffalo. He also serves as Director of the Center for Disability Studies, and has had selected work featured in various scholarly publications such as Disability and Society, Disability Studies Quarterly, Sexuality and Disability, and Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability. In 2008 he earned the Irving K. Zola Award from the Society for Disability Studies. His first published book is titled Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960.
For more information on Women's History Month, email Jeffry lovannnone or call him at 716-913-2318.
