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Intersections of feminist, queer, postcolonial and critical race theories. The r | ||||
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| Project Description Professor Brandzel's research fields include the intersections of feminist, queer, postcolonial and critical race theories; citizenship studies; legal studies; the rhetorical and political appeals to history and law for progressive change; and the relationship between normative identities and normative knowledges within academic and legal institutions. Brandzel's next comparative project interrogates the relationships between imperialism and sexuality by investigating the uses and deployments of "transnational" and "queer" objects and subjects within both the U.S. academy and U.S. legal institutions. The agenda is to examine the increasing demand for queer and transnational objects/subjects via analyses of U.S. imperialism, the history of western hegemonic feminism, and the increasing "spread" of GLBT liberation rhetoric, queer mobility and queer consumption. The project will include case studies involving the legal and cultural deployments of gender and sexuality in U.S. asylum cases; recent changes in U.S. immigration law with a specific focus on same-sex relationships and the "American family"; the queering of "sex" via transgender case law and its connection to intersectionality; and an analysis of the struggles over the sexual and the transnational as objects of study within Women's Studies, GLBT Studies, American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Eligibility | ||||
