Robyn Wiegman

Journal article American Literary History · May 1, 2026 AbstractThe relationship between psychoanalysis and queer theory has been a vexed if at times inspiring one. Certainly queer theory’s insistence on studying sexuality beyond the confines of identity has f ... Full text Open Access Cite

What If? Lesbian Feminism and the Future’s Now

Journal article Signs · September 1, 2025 It is hard to imagine a figure more celebrated and maligned than lesbian feminism: on the one hand, she represents second-wave feminism’s most cherished aspirations; on the other, its most disappointing failures. Parsing the split decisions that define her ... Full text Cite

On Collective Endurance: Thinking Gender Studies in Illiberal Times—A Conversation

Journal article Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies · 2025 Abstract: In honor of Frontier 's fiftieth anniversary, Clare Hemmings and Robyn Wiegman offer a wide-ranging conversation about the institutional and intellectual history of the field now called gender studies. Working in different ... Full text Open Access Cite

Critical Response VI Creatures of Habit

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

Feminism and the Impasse of Whiteness; or, Who’s Afraid of Rachel Doležal?

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · July 1, 2023 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