Queer and Feminist STS

Catalog description

This graduate course takes as its focus major themes, methods, and debates in queer and feminist science and technology studies (STS). It will introduce participants to foundational texts on the roles of gender and sexuality in scientific knowledge production. We will also consider more recent work that has critiqued and built upon these foundations, attending particularly to ongoing conversations about race, coloniality, disability, and queerness/transness. Throughout, we will ask—and probably fail to answer, in interesting ways—the question of what constitutes queer and feminist STS, and bring course insights to bear on our own knowledge-producing enterprise. Those enrolled will develop and write a substantive paper on a related theoretical and/or historiographical topic of their choosing.