East Asian Humanities Workshop: "Crafting A Proximate Remove"
Speaker
Reginald Jackson
Date
Wed October 5th 2022, 4:30–6:00pm PST (7:30–9PM EST)
Event Sponsor
East Asian Humanities Workshop
Location
Hybrid event - East Asia Library Room 224 or Zoom
Admission Information
Professor Jackson will be joining us via Zoom.
Please RSVP by September 30 if you plan to attend in-person and by October 3 if you plan to attend virtually. All attendees will receive the Zoom link.
Talk Abstract: What creative interpretive tools might we develop through engaging queer studies’ critical methods? And how might we translate these tools usefully into our reading and writing about Asian cultural production? To address these questions I detail the experience of conceptualizing, drafting, revising, and publishing my second book, A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji. My goal is to demystify, deromanticize, and destigmatize this tortuous yet rewarding journey. My hope is that students and scholars in different stages of their writing will participate, bring questions, and leave with enhanced insight and confidence to craft their own manuscripts.