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Queer Academics

Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary major that encourages students to explore and critique past and present cultural structures of power, focusing in particular on the social construction of gender as a category of analysis within the broader matrix of race, class, ethnicity, and sexual identity. Many courses listed in this area are relevant to queer studies, and many faculty who teach in this program are actively committed to supporting students who wish to explore queer academia.

Queer Studies Concentration, American Studies
The American Studies department offers a Queer Studies concentration within the major. Each semester, a variety of courses related to Queer Studies are offered by various departments. Some of these classes have included, Queer Theory, Queering the American State, and Nationalism and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality. In addition, Wesleyan offers students the opportunity to develop group tutorials to explore issues not offered in the currently scheduled courses. Examples of past tutorials include Queer People of Color, Lesbian Erotic Fiction Writing, and Queer Film Theory. The Gay, Lesbian, and Sexuality Studies Prize, donated by the Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association (GALA), is awarded annually to the undergraduate  who has done the best research and writing on a subject related to Queer Studies.