Fall 2023 GSS and Consortium Public Scholar-in-Residence: Professor Greta La Fleur

We’re thrilled to announce that our Fall 2023 Scholar in Residence will be Yale University Associate Professor of American Studies Greta La Fleur! Professor La Fleur is a scholar of the histories of race, science, sexuality, and law, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century British colonial North America. Professor La Fleur will be participating in a number of events while at USC, including a public-facing conversation and a graduate student seminar.

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Announcing our Fall 2023 GSS and Consortium Public Scholar-in-Residence: Professor Greta La Fleur (Yale University, American Studies)

The USC Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, and its Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, is delighted to announce our public-scholar-in-residence for fall 2023, Professor Greta La Fleur (American Studies, Yale University). Made possible through an intersectional studies grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Consortium, which is housed in GSS, hosts a one week-long residency each semester featuring scholars whose research contributes to a deeper understanding of gender, sexuality and race in the broader cultural conversation. During their residency the faculty member will participate in:

• a public lecture/conversation
• a pro-seminar with graduate students
• informal meetings/meals with faculty and graduate students.

In turn, the Consortium as the host institution will provide the faculty-in-residence with:

• an in-house podcasting training session with our production team (upon request)
• a broadcast of the scholar’s presentation as an episode of our “Critical Conversations”
  series streaming on YouTube and/or as a podcast episode of the same series
• networking meetings between the scholar and local community organizations and/or
  public-facing media outlets (upon request)

Our fall public-scholar-in-residence is Greta La Fleur, an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and a scholar of the histories of race, science, sexuality, and law, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century British colonial North America. LaFleur is the author of The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (2018), and is currently working on two book projects: a scholarly monograph, How Sex Became Good: The Feminist Movements and Racial Politics that Made Modern Sexuality (under contract with University of Chicago Press), and a jointly-authored book of essays on birding, under contract with Duke University Press’ Practices series. LaFleur has also co-edited two volumes of scholarly essays– Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell UP, 2021), and American Literature in Transition, 1770-1828 (Cambridge UP, 2022)– and three special journal issues: a special issue of American Quarterly on “Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas” (2019), a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly on “Trans Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right” (2022), and a special issue of GLQ, “The Science of Sex Itself” (2023). With Blake Gutt and Emily Skidmore, LaFleur is the series editor of Bloomsbury’s six-volume A Cultural History of Trans Lives.