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SUMMARY:A is for Abjection - The Lucy M. Freibert Lecture
CONTACT:Mark Mattes\, 502-852-6801\, email:mark.mattes@louisville.edu
DESCRIPTION:"A is for Abjection: Bilious Methods in Nineteenth-Century Amer
 ican Literature"\n\nBen Bascom, West Virginia University\n\nThis talk brin
 gs together queer and disability studies to tell a messy history of the re
 lationship between the body and sexuality in nineteenth-century American l
 iterature and culture. It focuses on “bilious methods”—the way the b
 ody’s apertures, conduits, and fluids shape conceptions of subjectivity.
  Proffering a bilious reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Lette
 r and related texts for what they teach us about bodily abjection, this pa
 per examines how involuntary acts and involuntary desires tell a story abo
 ut the sexual history of the will.\n\nBen Bascom is an assistant professor
  of English at West Virginia University. His book Feeling Singular: Queer
  Masculinities in the Early United States (Oxford UP, 2024) takes up quee
 r methods to reorient the field of early American literature around a seri
 es of marginal and eccentric life narratives, thereby to consider the spec
 ific power relations that stabilize white republican norms. His lecture dr
 aws from research on his current book project, a literary history of menta
 l health and sexuality in the long nineteenth century.\n\nA free, limited-
 edition letterpress print will be available to attendees.\n\nThis lecture 
 is sponsored by the Lucy M. Freibert endowment and organized by the Depart
 ment of English Research Committee.
GEO:38.2169;-85.7605
LOCATION:Ekstrom Library
URL:https://events.stage.louisville.edu/events/abjection-lucy-m-freibert-le
 cture/2026-03-17
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