The Queer Performance Reading Group will meet at 4pm on Monday, November 15, to
discuss David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub’s _Gay Shame_. As always, we will
meet in Sao Paolo on San Jacinto, and you are welcome even if you have not read
every word of the book. As _Gay Shame_ is an anthology with many short
chapters, we will probably focus our conversation on the first two sections,
“Gay Shame” and “Performing Shame.” The essay (and performance on the DVD
included with the book) by UT alumna Terry Galloway is also of particular
interest.

Our schedule for the rest of the semester is:

Monday, November 15, 4pm: David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, eds., Gay
Shame

Wednesday, December 1, 4:30pm: Dana Luciano, Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and
the Body in Nineteenth-Century America

In the spring semester (dates TBA), we plan to read:

Tavia Nyong’o, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of
Memory

Jose Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural
Lives

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity