Jane Gallop talks about adult-onset disability, middle-aging, and sexuality. The project brings together crip theory, feminist aging studies, queer temporality, psychoanalysis, and anecdotal theory. It considers how disability that begins in midlife and/or the entrance to middle age are lived as a threat to one's sexuality and one's gender, but also how these perspectives can supply us with alternative models of sexual temporality.
Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She holds a PhD in French literature and has written on a wide range of topics including psychoanalysis, especially the work of Jacques Lacan; French feminism; psychoanalysis and feminism; the Marquis de Sade; feminist literary criticism; pedagogy; sexual harassment; photography; and queer theory. Her work has drawn on the writings of French thinkers Simone de Beauvoir, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, among others.
Event co-sponsored by Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality; Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; Center for the Study of Social Difference; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; and Department of English and Comparative Literature.
