Scott St Pierre

Visiting Assistant Professor

Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Contact

Email

sstpierr@gettysburg.edu

Phone

(717) 337 - 6789

Box

Campus Box 2450

Address

Weidensall
Room 410
300 North Washington St.
Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400

Education

PhD English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
MA English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
BA English, Pomona College

Academic Focus

Feminist and Queer Theory; Men & Masculinities; Psychoanalysis; Disability Studies; Carceral Studies; Literary, Critical, and Cultural Theory

Scott St. Pierre earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in English from Pomona College. His scholarly writing has appeared in Criticism, Disability Studies Quarterly, GLQ, The Henry James Review, Textual Practice and other places. He is currently at work on a book manuscript, “Abnormal Tongues: Modernity and the Sexual Politics of Style.” Prior to arriving at Gettysburg College he taught at Bucknell University, The College of Wooster, and Oklahoma State University. His research interests include feminist and queer theory, men and masculinities, psychoanalysis, disability studies, and modern and contemporary U.S. literature and culture.

Topics courses offered at Gettysburg include: Black Feminism and Queer of Color Critique, Criminal Bodies/Criminal Minds, Feminist Disability Studies, Men & Masculinities, and Queer Visual Culture.

Courses Taught

This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of queer studies. We begin with the history of LGBT identity in the West. We then explore the gay and lesbian liberation movement, distinguishing between assimilationist and liberationist approaches to LGBT social movements. We then discuss the difference between LGBT and queer identities, focusing on the rise of queer theory and queer politics. Throughout the semester, we will consider the relationship between queer studies and studies of transgender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, class, nation, and globalization. We will end with a critique of the notion of a global gay identity from the fields of queer globalization studies and queer of color studies. Prerequisite: WGS 120, or permission of instructor.
Examination of a topic from a variety of in-depth perspectives. Selected topic is broad enough to allow students to engage in projects of their own devising. Course serves as a bridge between the undergraduate experience and the world beyond Gettysburg College as students learn to put their feminism into actions. Prerequisites: WGS 120, WGS 300 or 310, 340 and one additional core or cross-listed WGS course.

Article Psychoanalytic Thinking and the Sexual Politics of Style. Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts
Article ‘Bent on Candor’: Gossip, Shame, and Capote’s Answered Prayers. Textual Practice: An International Journal of Radical Literary Studies
Article Faggoty/White/Uniform: Gays in the Military and A Few Good Men In Media Res: Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Article Fruitcake Weather: Queer/Disabled Community in Truman Capote’s ‘A Christmas Memory.’ Disability Studies Quarterly
Article A Personal Quantity: On Sexuality and Jamesian Style The Henry James Review
Article Bent Hemingway: Sexuality, Straightness, Style GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies