Dr Benjamin Bateman @ Oxford
Andrew Holleran, HIV/AIDS Fiction, and the Forms Melancholia Takes
Organised by Ars Memoriae and Queer Intersections Oxford
Day 2: Week 6, Thursday 21 November 2024, 2pm
Taylor Institution Library
Free but registration required - Register here.
In this two-day lecture series, Benjamin will share insights from the research for his new book project that revisits HIV/AIDS fiction from the 1980s and 1990s and examines both its (underappreciated) formal complexity and its co-emergence with the field of queer theory. Authors to be studied include Andrew Holleran, Dale Peck, Sarah Schulman, John Weir, and Patricia Powell.
Biography:
Dr Benjamin Bateman is Senior Lecturer in Post-1900 British Literature and Director of Learning and Teaching in The School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at The University of Edinburgh. His monographs are The Modernist Art of Queer Survival and Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, both from Oxford University Press.
Ars Memoriae Reading Group, Queer Intersections Oxford Network, TORCH Networks
