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Ann Cvetkovich

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Ann Cvetkovich (born 1957) is the Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. [1]

61 relations: Acedia, ACT UP, Affect theory, Alison Bechdel, Allyson Mitchell, American studies, Ann Pellegrini, Archive, Biology of depression, Butch and femme, Cereus Blooms at Night, Colonialism, Cornell University, Critical race theory, Daniel Deronda, Das Kapital, Dorothy Allison, East Lynne, Elaine Showalter, Ellen Wood (author), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Feel Tank Chicago, Feminist theory, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Fun Home, Gender studies, George Eliot, GLQ (journal), Jack Halberstam, Janet Staiger, Jonathan Alexander (professor), José Esteban Muñoz, Karl Marx, Lady Audley's Secret, Lambda Literary Award, Lauren Berlant, Margaret Randall, Marxism, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Michel Foucault, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Neoliberalism, Oral history, Post-structuralism, Pratibha Parmar, Psychoanalytic theory, Queer theory, Reed College, Sara Ahmed, Scholar and Feminist Online, ..., Sensation novel, Shani Mootoo, Sheila Pepe, Silvan Tomkins, Tammy Rae Carland, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Woman in White (novel), Tribe 8, University of Texas at Austin, Wilkie Collins, Zoe Leonard. Expand index (11 more) »

Acedia

Acedia (also accidie or accedie, from Latin acedĭa, and this from Greek ἀκηδία, "negligence", ἀ- "lack of" -κηδία "care") is a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world.

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ACT UP

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS (PWAs) and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical research and treatment and policies to ultimately bring an end to the disease by mitigating loss of health and lives.

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Affect theory

Affect theory is a theory that seeks to organize affects, sometimes used interchangeably with emotions, or subjectively experienced feelings, into discrete categories and to typify their physiological, social, interpersonal, and internalized manifestations.

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Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist.

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Allyson Mitchell

Allyson Mitchell is a Toronto-based maximalist artist, working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film.

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American studies

American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American history, society, and culture.

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Ann Pellegrini

Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies (Tisch School of the Arts) and Social and Cultural Analysis (Faculty of Arts and Science) at NYU and the director of NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located.

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Biology of depression

Scientific studies have found that numerous brain areas show altered activity in patients suffering from depression, and this has encouraged advocates of various theories that seek to identify a biochemical origin of the disease, as opposed to theories that emphasize psychological or situational causes.

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Butch and femme

Butch and femme are terms used in the lesbian and gay subculture to ascribe or acknowledge a masculine (butch) or feminine (femme) identity with its associated traits, behaviors, styles, self-perception, and so on.

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Cereus Blooms at Night

Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) is the first novel published by film-maker, artist, and writer Shani Mootoo.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Critical race theory

Critical race theory (CRT) is a theoretical framework in the social sciences that uses critical theory to examine society and culture as they relate to categorizations of race, law, and power.

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Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876.

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Das Kapital

Das Kapital, also known as Capital.

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Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing expresses themes of class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism.

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East Lynne

East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood.

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Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.

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Ellen Wood (author)

Ellen Wood (née Price; 17 January 181410 February 1887), was an English novelist, better known in that respect as Mrs.

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), and critical theory.

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Feel Tank Chicago

Feel Tank Chicago is a Chicago-based group composed of activists, artists, and academics that engages both in critical research and political activism.

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Feminist theory

Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse.

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Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Frances Negrón-Muntaner (born 1966) is an award-winning Puerto Rican filmmaker, writer, and scholar.

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Fun Home

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

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Gender studies

Gender studies is a field for interdisciplinary study devoted to gender identity and gendered representation as central categories of analysis.

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George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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GLQ (journal)

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal based published by Duke University Press.

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Jack Halberstam

Jack Halberstam (born December 15, 1961), also known as Judith Halberstam, is a full professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University.

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Janet Staiger

Janet Staiger (born 1946) is the William P. Hobby Centennial Professor Emeritus of Communication in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and Professor Emeritus of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Jonathan Alexander (professor)

Jonathan Alexander (born October 2, 1967) is an American rhetorician and memoirist.

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José Esteban Muñoz

José Esteban Muñoz (August 9, 1967 – December 3, 2013) was a Cuban American academic in the fields of performance studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory.

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Karl Marx

Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.

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Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862.

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Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by the U.S.-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.

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Lauren Berlant

Lauren Berlant (born 1957) is the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where she has been teaching since 1984.

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Margaret Randall

Margaret Randall (born December 6, 1936, New York City, USA) is an American-born writer, photographer, activist and academic.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era.

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.

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Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, often referred to as MWMF or Michfest, and called the "Original Womyn's Woodstock", was an international feminist music festival held every August from 1976 to 2015 in Oceana County, Michigan, USA, near Hart Township, in a small wooded area referred to as "The Land" by MichFest organizers and attendees.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism refers primarily to the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.

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Oral history

Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.

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Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism is associated with the works of a series of mid-20th-century French, continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to be known internationally in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Pratibha Parmar

Pratibha Parmar is a British filmmaker, who has worked as a director, producer and writer.

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Psychoanalytic theory

Psychoanalytic theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology.

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Queer theory

Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies.

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Reed College

Reed College is an independent liberal arts college in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed (30 August 1969) is a British-Australian scholar whose area of study includes the intersection of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism.

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Scholar and Feminist Online

The Scholar and Feminist Online is an online academic journal covering feminist theories and movements.

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Sensation novel

The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved peak popularity in Great Britain in the 1860s and 1870s.

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Shani Mootoo

Shani Mootoo, writer, visual artist and video maker, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1957 to Trinidadian parents.

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Sheila Pepe

Sheila Pepe (born Morristown, New Jersey, 1959) is an artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

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Silvan Tomkins

Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory.

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Tammy Rae Carland

Tammy Rae Carland (born January 27, 1965), is a photographer, video artist, zine editor, current provost at California College of the Arts (CCA), and former co-owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and Student Affairs professionals (staff members and administrators).

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The Woman in White (novel)

The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins' fifth published novel, written in 1859.

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Tribe 8

Tribe 8 was an outspoken dyke punk band from San Francisco.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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Zoe Leonard

Zoe Leonard (born 1961) is an American artist who works primarily with photography and sculpture.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Cvetkovich

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