GAYPRIL: Dr. Lee Edelman and Dr. Joseph Litvak

Join us for a queer experience in understanding and rethinking Queer Theory with Lee Edelman and Joseph Litvak of Tufts University, as they perform a rereading of Strangers on a Train, and explore themes of rhetorical theory and societal politics.

Lunch will be provided. RSVP required: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6Z9XXY6

Lee Edelman began his academic career as a scholar of twentieth-century American poetry. He has since become a central figure in the development, dissemination, and rethinking of queer theory. His current work explores the intersections of sexuality, cultural politics, and film. He holds an appointment as the Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University.

Joseph Litvak is Professor of English at Tufts University.  He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1981.  His research interests include Victorian Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Mass Culture of the Cold War and Jewish Cultural Studies.  He is the author of Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory and the Novel (Duke University Press, 1997) and Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (University of California Press, 1992) He is also the author of After the Jew: Stoolpigeon Culture and the Hollywood Blacklist, forthcoming from Duke University Press.