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Robyn Wiegman

Professor of Literature
Literature
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0760
Friedl Building, Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Critical Response VI Creatures of Habit

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · September 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Object Lessons at 10: a conversation

Journal Article Feminist Theory · April 1, 2023 This conversation returns to Robyn Wiegman's field-defining Object Lessons, reflecting on the book's travels, resonances, and continued importance a decade after its publication. ... Full text Cite

On Reading Berlant Reading the World

Journal Article American Literary History · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Un/reading

Journal Article Differences · January 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Why Can't Homosexuals be Extraordinary? Queer Thinking After Leo Bersani

Journal Article Postmodern Culture · January 1, 2023 Is "queer now to be taken as delineating political rather than erotic tendencies?" Leo Bersani laments in Homos, his 1985 text that helped launch his reputation as the god father of queer theory's now famed anti-social thesis. For Mikko Tuhkanen, Bersani's ... Full text Cite

Loss, Hope: The University in Ruins, Again

Journal Article Feminist Studies · January 1, 2022 Full text Open Access Cite

Introduction: Autotheory theory

Journal Article Arizona Quarterly · March 1, 2020 Full text Open Access Cite

Love and Repudiation in the Feminist Canon

Journal Article Feminist Formations · March 1, 2020 Thinking back across three decades of teaching in gender studies, the author offers a pedagogical history of the evolution of what is arguably the most widely required course in the curriculum of the field today: feminist theory. Along the way, she conside ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Now, not now

Journal Article Differences · January 1, 2019 Full text Open Access Cite

In the margins with the argonauts

Journal Article Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities · January 2, 2018 Readers in love with Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts have often praised her ability to use the analytic capacities and citational resources of critical theory to advance her personal narrative about queer sex and kinship. This essay takes stock of Nelson’s g ... Full text Open Access Cite

Orgasmology: A Dossier

Journal Article Feminist Formations · 2016 Cite

Wearing Out

Journal Article English Studies in Canada · 2016 Forty on Forty Reader’s Forum ... Cite

Wearing out speculative ambitions

Journal Article English Studies in Canada · December 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Eve’s Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself

Journal Article Differences · January 26, 2015 Open Access Cite

Introduction: Antinormativity's Queer Conventions

Journal Article differences · January 26, 2015 Full text Open Access Cite

Queer Theory Without Anti-Normativity: An Introduction

Journal Article Differences · January 26, 2015 Cite

Queer Theory Without Anti-Normativity

Journal Article Differences · 2015 Cite

The Forty on Forty Project

Journal Article ENGLISH STUDIES IN CANADA · 2015 Cite

What Does Critique Want? A Critical Exchange

Journal Article English Language Notes · 2014 Featured Publication Cite

If, Suddenly

Journal Article The Scholar & Feminist Online · 2014 Link to item Cite

Feminism beside itself

Book · January 1, 2013 First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ... Full text Cite

Wishful Thinking

Journal Article Feminist Formations · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

The Closet, Its Conventions, and Anti-Racist Criticism

Journal Article Cultural Anthropology · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Object Lessons

Book · 2012 Cite

Eve, At a Distance

Journal Article Trans-Scripts: An Interdisciplinary On Line Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences · 2012 Cite

The Ends of New Americanism

Journal Article New Literary History · 2011 Open Access Cite

Outside American Studies: On the Unhappy Pursuits of Non-Complicity

Journal Article Rivista di Studi Americani · 2010 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · February 4, 2008 Full text Cite

Feminismens, apokalyptiska framtider

Journal Article Fronesis: Revista de Filosofia Juridica, Social y Politica · 2008 Special issue on Feminism and the Left ... Cite

In the After Life of the Duke Case

Journal Article Social Text 93 · 2007 Cite

The Desire for Gender

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Un-Remembering Monique Wittig

Journal Article GLQ · 2007 Cite

Heteronormativity and the Desire for Gender

Journal Article Feminist Theory · April 2006 Cite

The Anatomy of Lynching

Chapter · 2006 Online database ... Cite

Dear Ian (A Response to Janet Halley)

Journal Article Duke Journal of Gender, Law and Policy · March 2004 Cite

On Being in Time with Feminism

Journal Article Modern Language Quarterly · March 2004 Cite

What Ails Feminist Criticism? A Second Opinion (excerpt)

Journal Article Contemporary Literary Criticism · 2004 Cite

Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood

Journal Article American Literature: Special Issue on Literature and Science, Conceptual Forms, Conceptual Exchanges · December 2002 Cite

Academic Feminism Against Itself

Journal Article NWSA Journal · July 2002 Cite

Difference and Disciplinarity

Chapter · January 2002 Cite

Futures

Chapter · 2002 Cite

Object Lessons: Men, Masculinity, and the Sign of 'Women'

Journal Article Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society · December 2001 Cite

Women's Studies: Interdisciplinary Imperatives, Again

Journal Article Feminist Studies · June 2001 Cite

Feminism’s Apocalyptic Futures

Journal Article New Literary History · October 2000 Cite

Postmodernism

Other Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Volume I: Lesbian Histories and Cultures · 2000 Cite

Feminism, Institutionalism, and the Idiom of Failure

Journal Article differences · October 1999 Cite

Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity

Journal Article boundary 2 · October 1999 Cite

What’s New(s) about Whiteness Studies?

Journal Article Critica · March 1999 Cite

Critical response i what ails feminist criticism? a second opinion

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · January 1, 1999 Full text Cite

Race, Ethnicity, and Film

Chapter · January 1998 Cite

Introduction to The Futures of American Studies

Journal Article Cultural Critique · 1998 Cite

The Futures of American Studies

Journal Article Cultural Critique · 1998 Cite

Outing Ellen

Journal Article gist magazine · December 1997 Link to item Cite

Queering the Academy

Journal Article Genders: Special Issue on The Gay 90s, Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies · October 1997 Cite

Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism (Walter Benn Michaels)

Journal Article American Literature · June 1997 Cite

Feminism and Its Mal(e)contents

Journal Article Masculinities · March 1997 Cite

Fiedler and Sons

Chapter · 1997 Cite

Tendencies (Eve Sedgwick) and Bodies That Matter (Judith Butler)

Journal Article American Literature · December 1995 Cite

On Sex and Discipline

Journal Article Surfaces · November 1995 Link to item Cite

Contingencies

Chapter · 1995 Cite

Femininity

Other A Companion to American Thought · 1995 Cite

Masculinity

Other A Companion to American Thought · 1995 Cite

Missiles and Melodrama

Chapter · March 1994 Cite

The Anatomy of Lynching

Journal Article Journal of the History of Sexuality: Special Issue on African American Sexuality · January 1993 Cite

Toward a Political Economy of Race and Gender

Journal Article Bucknell Review: Special Issue on Turning the Century, Feminist Criticism in the 1990s · 1992 Cite

Melville’s Geography of Gender

Journal Article American Literary History · December 1989 Cite

Writing the Male Body: Naked Patriarchy and Whitmanian Democracy

Journal Article Literature and Psychology · March 1987 Cite