Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries

By Bruce Henderson Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Pedagogy

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries is designed as an introductory textbook for undergraduate courses in this rapidly growing field.

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain

By Carissa Harris Author Interviews, Medieval, Pedagogy, Sexual Violence

Obscenity is useful as a tool for teaching about sex and consent in the Middle Ages, and today.

Teaching the Early Modern “Penis-Vagina”

By Julia Gossard Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, Pedagogy

Presenting Vesalius’ “penis-vagina” (as many students took to calling it) on the first day of class immediately primed students to dissect early modern social constructions of gender and sexuality.

Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality

By Claire Hayward LGBTQ, Pedagogy

How do we find, describe and contextualise histories of same-sex love and gender identity?

“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Pedagogy, Trans

Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress examines the effects of San Francisco’s 1863 cross-dressing ordinance.

Teaching with Tumblr: Building a Digital Archive of Gender, Race & Empire

By Bianca Murillo Empire and Colonialism, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity

I am interested in the potential of digital media as a way to engage students.

Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance

By Samantha Caslin Antipodean sexualities, Pedagogy

The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.