Harvard To Offer Class Examining Medieval Texts Through Lens Of ‘Queer Theory’
Campus Reform | 08/06/2024Harvard’s English department will be featuring a “Queer/Medieval” class in the upcoming spring 2025 semester. The course will be an “introduction to queer theory as an intellectual…
Shouldn’t that read “irrelevant”? And queer?
… tool with which to read texts far removed from the political, cultural, and social discourses from which queer theory emerged,” specifically, in this case, medieval texts.
“We will ask: what can queer theory offer readers of medieval literature in its explorations of gender, sexuality, race, power, narrative, trauma, and time?” the course description states.
“— And of shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, and kings.”
The course will use the lens of “queer theory” to examine classic medieval texts such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Does the Green Knight get Greta? Or is he queer?
Though the course is listed on Harvard’s website as taking place in the spring 2025 semester, a Harvard official told Campus Reform that it will actually take place in the fall of 2024.
Or in the fall of civilization.
The course will be taught by Assistant Professor of English Anna Wilson, Harvard’s “Medieval Studies Faculty Liaison for Equity and Diversity.”
Man, we’ve got to get one of those, too.
I bet there won’t be any gratuitous female bodies found in this course…
“E – e – e – e!”
“What can queer theory offer…?” Lots of manly interactions, I bet…
Just what is the symbolism behind the “Round Table “? Inquiring minds want to never know…
Made Marion? I sure have.
— Sir Gal I Had
“Let me see that nice round table.”
— The Shadowy Killer
“ …listed on Harvard’s website as taking place in the spring 2025 semester…it will actually take place in the fall of 2024.”
Now that is queer.
“So, remind me: did I get an A in 2024?”
No! You got the worst grade possible: LGBTQ minus
When You Look at Medieval History Using Queer Theory,…
you will never be able to be clean again.