2024 David R. Kessler Lecture with Heather K. Love
On November 7th, 2024, CLAGS honored Dr. Heather K. Love, the 32nd recipient of the David R. Kessler Award. The Kessler is given annually to a scholar who has produced a substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of LGBTQ Studies. Love’s engagements with comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, and reading methods in literary studies, as well as her current work on the queer real, exemplify a range and depth of scholarship that CLAGS is proud to honor.
Love is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History and Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory, as well the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin and co-editor of a special issue of Representations on "Description Across Disciplines." In 2023, she co-edited Literary Studies and Human Flourishing.
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