Date: 02/08/2018
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Description
Lisa Diedrich, Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
“My talk will offer an introduction to some of the histories and methods of the field of Medical Humanities, as well as some debates around naming, direction, and approaches of the field. I will also discuss the recent emergence of the Medical Humanities and Health Studies forum, a transdisciplinary initiative at MLA that I have been involved in since its inception in 2016.”
Kristina Lucenko, Assistant Professor, Program in Writing & Rhetoric, AND Shyam Sharma, Assistant Professor, Program in Writing & Rhetoric
“Countering Insecurity with Advocacy for International Students: Pedagogical and Programmatic Strategies”
Mary Jo Bona, Professor, Italian American Studies, Chair, Department of WGSS
“Fetterley’s ‘Palpable Design’: Feminist Blueprint for Resisting Scholars”
Mary Jo Bona will open the panel recalling how The Resisting Reader issued a clarion call for feminist literary scholars to take bolder steps in thought and praxis, as Fetterley brought a feminist hermeneutics to institute symptomatic reading of what in 1978 constituted canonical American fiction. Her talk explores some of the effects of the text beyond its function as literary analysis. Professor Bona argues that even as Fetterley exposed the limitations of entrenched reading practices that suppressed the realties of social contexts, the text also issued a caution, warning of backlash and encouraging a more nuanced approach to feminist literary scholarship. Arguing further that the book produced the conditions for a feminist methodology that embraces interdisciplinary scholarship, she examines how this is epitomized by a reinterpretation of a canonical story, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and a landmark essay, Susan’ Lanser’s “Feminist Criticism, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ and the Politics of Color in America.” Finally, Bona examines The Resisting Reader in the contexts of the 1990s canon and cultural wars and the paradigm shift in criticism that transformed the discourse of literary studies to show the significance of Fetterley’s hermeneutical act of resistance for current academic practices of reading and feminist interpretations.
“The Resistant Reader at Forty Special Session”
Analyses of the afterlife of Judith Fetterley’s iconic figuring of a feminist hermeneutic; reflections on resistant reading’s potential for the future.
We conceive of this special session as means both of honoring this book for the work it has achieved and of exploring its potential for future applications. As the speakers focus on different aspects of Fetterley’s work— hermeneutics, the concept of “immasculation”, and feminist politics—, together they offer testimony to the varied effects that The Resisting Reader has produced across four decades and witness that the book continues to offer resources for thinking, resisting, and building solidarity.
Registration
Bookings are closed for this event.
Kate Kasten-Mutkus
email: kathleen.kasten@stonybrook.edu
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