Keynote Speaker: Jack Halberstam

Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of classic books in feminist, queer and cultural theory, such as Female Masculinity (1998), In A Queer Time and Place (2005), and The Queer Art of Failure, (2011). The latest book is Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020), and a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy is soon to be finished. Halberstam is also working on a book on fascism and (homo)sexuality.

Halberstam has co-edited a number of anthologies including Posthuman Bodies with Ira Livingston (Indiana University Press, 1995) and a special issue of Social Text with José Muñoz and David Eng titled “What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now?” Jack is a popular speaker and gives lectures around the world every year. Lecture topics include queer failure, sex and media, subcultures, visual culture, gender variance, popular film, animation.

Selected writings

Halberstam, Jack. J. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995).

Female Masculinity, Durham: Duke UP, 1998.

In A Queer Time and Place, New York: NYU Press, 2005.

The Queer Art of Failure, Durham: Duke UP, 2011. 

Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, Boston: Beacon Press, 2012.

Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance, Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire, Durham: Duke UP, 2020.