English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Heike Bauer

In brief

Date - 15 November 2024

Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square

Speaker - Dr Heike Bauer (Birkbeck, University of London)

Chair - Dr Anna Girling

Title - Inordinate Affections? Pets, Strays, and Modern Queer Culture

About the speaker

Heike Bauer is Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History, and Head of Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London.

She has published widely on literature and the modern history of sexuality, the intersections between queer and animal histories, and the rise of queer and feminist graphic novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, member of the AHRC Peer Review College, advisory group member of Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies (BiGS), co-convenor of the History of Sexuality Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, and member of the editorial boards of Australian Feminist Studies, History of the Human Sciences, and Gender & History.

How to attend

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