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Papers by Katie Hogan
the minnesota review, 2005
Katie Hogan ... The fact is, as the Modern Language Association's Committee on the Status of... more Katie Hogan ... The fact is, as the Modern Language Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (CSWP) argued in "Women in the Profession, 2000," the identification of women with a profession, such as English, does not translate into gender or racial ...
University of Wisconsin Press eBooks, Jan 10, 2023
Women’s Studies Quarterly, 2002
Postmodern film theorists often dismiss film criticism that focuses on stereotypes and images of ... more Postmodern film theorists often dismiss film criticism that focuses on stereotypes and images of socially marginalized groups as naive and outdated. Ellis Hanson's Outtakes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film characterizes such a focus as oversimplified and theoretically and aesthetically "impoverished" (5). But the virtue of using the images/ stereotypes method is in its rendering of historical and political context-a particularly useful tool in studying films about AIDS. In addition, as Suzanna Walters points out, a blind spot of postmodern "signification theorists" is that they downplay, and sometimes even ignore, how social and political contexts are intertwined with the construction of film narratives (26). In analyzing one of Hollywood's first responses to the topic of women and AIDS, Herbert Ross's 1995 film, Boys on the Side, I neither dismiss this commercial film as trivial or lacking in artistic skill nor denigrate the importance of the emotion...
Women S Studies Quarterly, Apr 1, 2002
... REFERENCES Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History... more ... REFERENCES Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New York: Viking, 1994. ... 67-90. Denison, Rebecca. "Understanding HIV and AIDS: The Basics." World 110 (June 2000): 4. Danica, Elly. ...
Profession, 2009
Since the report "Standing Still" identifies my home institution as one that has create... more Since the report "Standing Still" identifies my home institution as one that has created a special program for associate professors, I devote my response primarily to explaining how the program came into being and what its aims are. In fall 2006, in my second year as senior associate dean for the fine arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, I started wondering why we in the college office invested heavily in start-up packages for probationary faculty mem bers, yet, after granting tenure to a colleague who had proved herself or himself professionally, we did virtually nothing in a formal or targeted way to encourage and support new associate professors. Why promise funding, research leave, mentoring, and other perks to faculty members we might not even promote and then offer essentially nothing to support those we had deemed worthy of promotion? Mulling over these questions led me to think about a start-up program for newly appointed associate professors. I didn't attempt to gather data on the length of time it takes associate professors in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences to progress to full professor. I didn't think about whether women or men had been more or less adversely affected during their tenure at the associate professor rank.
The Journal of American Culture, 2012
Copyright© 2001 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a revie... more Copyright© 2001 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage ...
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
Book review of Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture.
Although not done deliberately, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home intervenes in rural queer studies by sh... more Although not done deliberately, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home intervenes in rural queer studies by showing how geography, sexuality, and gender are vital to understanding the complexities of rural queer lives. Based on Bechdel’s experiences growing up in Beech Creek in the 1960s and 70s, Fun Home unwittingly resonates with the aims of rural queer studies by exploring, among other things, complex queer attachments to rural place—with a particular focus on the author’s father, Bruce Bechdel. Bruce was raised on a dairy farm, where he had his first same-sex experience with a farmhand. When he became an adult, his non-normative sexual activity was an open secret, until his arrest for providing an alcoholic beverage to a minor, the younger brother of one of his upper-class high school students. Bruce’s arrest threatens his reputation, livelihood, marriage, and family in an unprecedented way, and Alison Bechdel believes it drove him to suicide. Because Bruce is white, male, and college educated, and belongs to a family with a long history in Beech Creek, he escapes prison and is instead ordered to begin sessions with a psychiatrist for his “disorder.” Contrary to the impression given of Bruce in Fun Home scholarship, and even in Fun Home itself, in many ways life in Beech Creek suits him.
The recent development of what is known as queer ecology – the bringing together of queer and eco... more The recent development of what is known as queer ecology – the bringing together of queer and ecological theories and politics – was a key point of inspiration for this special issue. In order to honour that legacy, and to bring queer ecology discussions to ecopsychology and vice versa, I invited seven contemporary thinkers to sit together at a virtual roundtable. I began the discussion by asking each of the participants to offer their own individual reflection on the nature and value of queer ecology. These scholars bring a diverse range of perspectives to the table (as appropriate for the confluence of queer and ecological perspectives). From literary theory to anticapitalist activism, from the politics of knowledge to the vitality of the material world, from everyday performativities to the enormity of ecosystems, these seven writers offer thoughtful commentary on the intertwined nature of queer, oikos and psyche. In the second round of the roundtable, each participant offers a r...
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2021
The notion of our complicity in an oppressive and unjust system is deep. It’s important to crack ... more The notion of our complicity in an oppressive and unjust system is deep. It’s important to crack this idea open and ask: ‘How can women’s and gender studies scholars (maybe all faculty focused on social justice) do the work they need to do to add to knowledge through teaching and research? How do they do this without compromising their values? How can they do this without contributing to a flawed and unjust system?’ Probably they can’t. The complicity comes with the deal.
You see, they had had no wars. They had had no kings, and no priests, and no aristocracies. They ... more You see, they had had no wars. They had had no kings, and no priests, and no aristocracies. They were sisters, and as they grew, they grew together-not by competition, but by united action. -Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (51) Many feminist writers, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Herland, Marge Piercy in Woman on theEdge of Time, and Suniti Namjoshi in The Mothers of Maya Diip, have sought to present readers with utopian visions of societies created by and for women. This work, primarily labeled science fiction because of the disjunction between everyday life and the fantasy (or a sometimes dystopic critique), seems impossible to bridge. Contrast this fictional desire for a woman-centered world with a campus where women's studies is not "quarantined" (in the patriarchy's perspective) to a women's center or a particular space or program labeled "women's studies." Instead, the practice of women's studies is infused into the curriculum, i...
the minnesota review, 2009
Page 1. Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS edited by NANCY L, ROTH & KATIE HOGAN Pag... more Page 1. Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS edited by NANCY L, ROTH & KATIE HOGAN Page 2. Page 3. Gendered Epidemic Page 4. Page 5. Gendered Epidemic RepreseataIions of Women in Ihe Age of AIDS edited ...
the minnesota review, 2005
Katie Hogan ... The fact is, as the Modern Language Association's Committee on the Status of... more Katie Hogan ... The fact is, as the Modern Language Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (CSWP) argued in "Women in the Profession, 2000," the identification of women with a profession, such as English, does not translate into gender or racial ...
University of Wisconsin Press eBooks, Jan 10, 2023
Women’s Studies Quarterly, 2002
Postmodern film theorists often dismiss film criticism that focuses on stereotypes and images of ... more Postmodern film theorists often dismiss film criticism that focuses on stereotypes and images of socially marginalized groups as naive and outdated. Ellis Hanson's Outtakes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film characterizes such a focus as oversimplified and theoretically and aesthetically "impoverished" (5). But the virtue of using the images/ stereotypes method is in its rendering of historical and political context-a particularly useful tool in studying films about AIDS. In addition, as Suzanna Walters points out, a blind spot of postmodern "signification theorists" is that they downplay, and sometimes even ignore, how social and political contexts are intertwined with the construction of film narratives (26). In analyzing one of Hollywood's first responses to the topic of women and AIDS, Herbert Ross's 1995 film, Boys on the Side, I neither dismiss this commercial film as trivial or lacking in artistic skill nor denigrate the importance of the emotion...
Women S Studies Quarterly, Apr 1, 2002
... REFERENCES Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History... more ... REFERENCES Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New York: Viking, 1994. ... 67-90. Denison, Rebecca. "Understanding HIV and AIDS: The Basics." World 110 (June 2000): 4. Danica, Elly. ...
Profession, 2009
Since the report "Standing Still" identifies my home institution as one that has create... more Since the report "Standing Still" identifies my home institution as one that has created a special program for associate professors, I devote my response primarily to explaining how the program came into being and what its aims are. In fall 2006, in my second year as senior associate dean for the fine arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, I started wondering why we in the college office invested heavily in start-up packages for probationary faculty mem bers, yet, after granting tenure to a colleague who had proved herself or himself professionally, we did virtually nothing in a formal or targeted way to encourage and support new associate professors. Why promise funding, research leave, mentoring, and other perks to faculty members we might not even promote and then offer essentially nothing to support those we had deemed worthy of promotion? Mulling over these questions led me to think about a start-up program for newly appointed associate professors. I didn't attempt to gather data on the length of time it takes associate professors in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences to progress to full professor. I didn't think about whether women or men had been more or less adversely affected during their tenure at the associate professor rank.
The Journal of American Culture, 2012
Copyright© 2001 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a revie... more Copyright© 2001 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage ...
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
Book review of Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture.
Although not done deliberately, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home intervenes in rural queer studies by sh... more Although not done deliberately, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home intervenes in rural queer studies by showing how geography, sexuality, and gender are vital to understanding the complexities of rural queer lives. Based on Bechdel’s experiences growing up in Beech Creek in the 1960s and 70s, Fun Home unwittingly resonates with the aims of rural queer studies by exploring, among other things, complex queer attachments to rural place—with a particular focus on the author’s father, Bruce Bechdel. Bruce was raised on a dairy farm, where he had his first same-sex experience with a farmhand. When he became an adult, his non-normative sexual activity was an open secret, until his arrest for providing an alcoholic beverage to a minor, the younger brother of one of his upper-class high school students. Bruce’s arrest threatens his reputation, livelihood, marriage, and family in an unprecedented way, and Alison Bechdel believes it drove him to suicide. Because Bruce is white, male, and college educated, and belongs to a family with a long history in Beech Creek, he escapes prison and is instead ordered to begin sessions with a psychiatrist for his “disorder.” Contrary to the impression given of Bruce in Fun Home scholarship, and even in Fun Home itself, in many ways life in Beech Creek suits him.
The recent development of what is known as queer ecology – the bringing together of queer and eco... more The recent development of what is known as queer ecology – the bringing together of queer and ecological theories and politics – was a key point of inspiration for this special issue. In order to honour that legacy, and to bring queer ecology discussions to ecopsychology and vice versa, I invited seven contemporary thinkers to sit together at a virtual roundtable. I began the discussion by asking each of the participants to offer their own individual reflection on the nature and value of queer ecology. These scholars bring a diverse range of perspectives to the table (as appropriate for the confluence of queer and ecological perspectives). From literary theory to anticapitalist activism, from the politics of knowledge to the vitality of the material world, from everyday performativities to the enormity of ecosystems, these seven writers offer thoughtful commentary on the intertwined nature of queer, oikos and psyche. In the second round of the roundtable, each participant offers a r...
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2021
The notion of our complicity in an oppressive and unjust system is deep. It’s important to crack ... more The notion of our complicity in an oppressive and unjust system is deep. It’s important to crack this idea open and ask: ‘How can women’s and gender studies scholars (maybe all faculty focused on social justice) do the work they need to do to add to knowledge through teaching and research? How do they do this without compromising their values? How can they do this without contributing to a flawed and unjust system?’ Probably they can’t. The complicity comes with the deal.
You see, they had had no wars. They had had no kings, and no priests, and no aristocracies. They ... more You see, they had had no wars. They had had no kings, and no priests, and no aristocracies. They were sisters, and as they grew, they grew together-not by competition, but by united action. -Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (51) Many feminist writers, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Herland, Marge Piercy in Woman on theEdge of Time, and Suniti Namjoshi in The Mothers of Maya Diip, have sought to present readers with utopian visions of societies created by and for women. This work, primarily labeled science fiction because of the disjunction between everyday life and the fantasy (or a sometimes dystopic critique), seems impossible to bridge. Contrast this fictional desire for a woman-centered world with a campus where women's studies is not "quarantined" (in the patriarchy's perspective) to a women's center or a particular space or program labeled "women's studies." Instead, the practice of women's studies is infused into the curriculum, i...
the minnesota review, 2009
Page 1. Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS edited by NANCY L, ROTH & KATIE HOGAN Pag... more Page 1. Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS edited by NANCY L, ROTH & KATIE HOGAN Page 2. Page 3. Gendered Epidemic Page 4. Page 5. Gendered Epidemic RepreseataIions of Women in Ihe Age of AIDS edited ...