Queerer Modernism

Jana Funke, our project director, delivered the keynote address at Queer Modernism(s) II: Intersectional Identities in April 2018 on ‘Queerer Modernism’. According to the conference report Jana “demonstrated how contemporary focus on inversion obscured the greater variety in discourse on sexuality. Funke showed how Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West used Marie Stope’s sexology to understand their failure to achieve sexual pleasure in their marriage, showing the possibilities of queer identification beyond lesbian experience. Funke invited her listeners to move beyond the closed circuit of identitarian labels, and, in doing so, ‘queer’ queer studies”.

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