Dr. Gero Bauer, a professor at Tübingen University in Germany, will teach and collaborate in learning alongside Honors College students. This semester he is teaching HHUM205: Queer Outlooks in Contemporary Theory and Fiction, in which Honors Humanities students will consider the role of queer perspectives in both recent critical theory and fiction. The aim of this advanced course is for students to discover and practice “queering” as a critical methodology, to consider the intersections of gender and sexuality with other identity categories, and to understand queer critical theory and fiction not as hierarchical, but as complementary modalities.
The managing director for the Center for Gender and Diversity Research at Tübingen, Dr. Bauer’s research interests are 19th to 21st century anglophone literatures, film and series, gender and queer studies, affect studies, ecocriticism, ethics and literature, new materialism, post-/decolonial studies, comparative literature and literary and cultural history.
Dr. Bauer is also teaching ENGL 359D: Special Topics in LGBTQ+ Literatures and Media; Queer Modernisms (0101) for UMD’s English department this fall. Please check the Schedule of Classes if you wish to enroll in this course.
