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With humorous and challenging biographical stories—being a “gay” child and a “trans” child—becoming in her teens an Evangelical Christian to embrace her queerness—Stockton will tell how she came to Utah in 1987 and immediately led a curriculum revolution in the Women’s Studies Program, before becoming among the first scholars in the country to teach a course in “queer theory” (here, of all places).  Prepare to learn what queer theory is; why time in divinity school laid her ground for it; why a theorist would ever consent to being a dean and a vice president; and why we might make seductive kindness the face of our very rational anger.

About Kathryn Bond Stockton:

With a Ph.D. from Brown University and an M.Div. from Yale University, Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English, former Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity, and former inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Two of her books—Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” and The Queer Child—were national finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies and her book Making Out was a 2020 finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir. Her newest book is Gender(s) and she has also authored God Between Their Lips. Along with her university’s top teaching award, she has received the NOW Lifetime Achievement Award, Equality Utah’s Allies Award, the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication, the Crompton Noll Prize from the Modern Language Association, and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the highest honor granted by the University of Utah.

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