Course Details

This undergraduate seminar examines the particular forms in which Chicana feminist theoretical practices are embodied, including theoretical texts, poetry, music, and other creative works. Seminar considers how Chicana feminist theory has transformed and been transformed by intellectual, poetic, and aesthetic traditions as it moves in conversation with Black and Indigenous feminist theorizing, traveling throughout the U.S. borderlands, as well as Central and South America. Each seminar meeting consists of a brief lecture, discussion break-out groups, a mid-way break, and a viewing/listening to relevant film, media or audio texts, or assignment workshop.

Course linked to UW Public Lectures guest Dr. Martha Gonzalez, a MacArthur “Genius” Award Fellow, and to Dr. Gonzalez’s musician residency at Meany Center with her Grammy-winning band Quetzal. Students will meet and learn from Dr. Gonzalez in class.