We decided last semester that our spring reading would include:

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

Jose Esteban 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

We can add other books, as well. I’ve prepared a list of suggested additional
books as a “wish list” on Powells.com. To access this list, please go to
 rbernst at fas.harvard.edu). At our first meeting of the semester, we’ll set our schedule and decide what, if
any, additional books we will read.

As always, the spirit of the Queer Performance Reading Group is welcoming toward
grad students and faculty of a variety of disciplines, and it’s fine, as always,
to drop in and out or to attend discussions even if you have not read every word
of the book. We had a terrific set of conversations last semester, and I look
forward to continuing over the coming months!

**The final take-away of this message: if you want to influence the schedule of
meetings this semester, please email me(  rbernst at fas.harvard.edu)

***Remember: grad
students may receive course credit for participating in the reading
group–please email me for details ( rbernst at fas.harvard.edu)***