Emerging Scholar Lecture Explores "Erotic Pedagogy"
Elmira, NY (11/05/2019) — Brianna Thompson, graduate resident fellow at Cornell University, will present a lecture, "Erotic Pedagogy in Susan B. Warner's The Wide, Wide, World," on Tuesday, November 5, as a part of the Emerging Scholar Lecture Series. The lecture analyzes the way women lovingly touch each other while they learn about God to reveal how the Wide, Wide World's investment in the body is a register of the affective challenges patriarchal, and hierarchical kinship.
"My argument is that these women, though their religious lessons together, their "erotic pedagogy," model an intense merging that does not always discern between socially constructed identity categories like 'self' or 'other,'" said Thompson. "This merging precedes what I call "promiscuous" kinship, or family in which roles are both intensely intimate and replaceable."
The lecture begins at 4:30 p.m. in Gannett-Tripp Library and is free and open to the public.
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