Queer Ecologies, Taught by Heather Davis

Queer Ecologies, a course offered by the Culture and Media program at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, seeks to disrupt prevailing heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and nature, and also to reimagine evolutionary processes, ecological interactions, and environmental politics in light of queer theory. Heather Davies, assistant professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang, draws from traditions as diverse as evolutionary biology, LGBTQ+ movements, feminist science studies, and environmental justice to bring attention to the interdisciplinary study. The course is designed to highlight the complexity of contemporary biopolitics. It draws connections between the material and cultural dimensions of environmental issues and examines the ways in which sex and nature are understood in light of multiple trajectories of power and matter.

Queer Ecologies supports dynamic student projects. One of Davis’s students, Erica Tagliarino, a senior in Communication Design who will graduate in May, developed an “Encyclopedia of Queer Animals.” You can view Tagliarino’s entire project by downloading the PDF below.

Source: New School Course Catalog