Negative Life: A Conversation with Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay
FQT Podcast
In this episode Che Gossett, associate director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania speaks with the authors of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024) professors Steven Swarbrick of CUNY and Jean Thomas Tremblay of York University. They discuss the concept of negative life, the contemporary politics of ecocriticism, film theory, psychoanalysis, and queer studies. Music Credit: The Day the World Turned Day-Glo, by X-Ray Spex
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Care at the End of the World: A Conversation with Jina B. Kim
FQT Podcast
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Jina B. Kim, who is assistant professor of English Language & Literature and of the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, about her forthcoming book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure: Crip-of-Color Writing after the U.S. Welfare State (Duke UP, March 2025). Professor Kim speaks about her articulation of a "crip-of-color critique," and how feminist- and queer-of-color literary responses to state austerity measures -- as seen in the work of writers such as Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler,...
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Rearranging Desires: A Conversation with Gayatri Spivak
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with literary theory, philosophy, and subaltern studies scholar Professor Gayatri Spivak, who is University Professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, the 2012 recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, and the author of numerous field shaping books and articles, including A Critique of Postcolonial Reason Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Harvard UP, 1999), Readings (2014) and texts of critical essays including Outside in the Teaching Machine (Routledge,...
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The Reorder of Things: A Conversation with Roderick Ferguson
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In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Roderick Ferguson, professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Ferguson was the 2018-2019 president of the American Studies Association. He is the author of (Polity, 2019), (University of California, 2017), (University of Minnesota, 2012), and (University of Minnesota, 2004). Song Credit: Adrian Piper being interviewed about and performing her street performance piece “Mythic Being”, excerpted from “Other Than Art’s...
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Black Nihilism and Spirituality: A Conversation with Calvin Warren
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In this episode, recorded during fall semester 2023, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Calvin Warren, associate professor of African American Studies at Emory University about his book Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism and Emancipation (Duke UP, 2018), and his thoughts on Black nihilism and spirituality. Music credits: "There Are Other Worlds (Have They Not Told You Of) by Sun Ra
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Poetics Against Extraction: A Conversation with Jackie Wang
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In this conversation FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with poet, author and professor Jackie Wang. Wang is an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018), and Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun (Semiotext(e), 2023), as well as works of poetry, such as The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void (Nightboat, 2021). In this expansive conversation, Wang discusses her work on carceral technologies -- including AI -- surveillance, and extraction, as well...
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Stag Dance: Torrey Peters on Lumberjacks and Creating Queer & Trans Literary Worlds
FQT Podcast
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett interviews novelist Torrey Peters about her intellectual and writerly formation, her early online novella publications, The Masker and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, and her novel Detransition Baby (One World, 2021) which received the the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction, and was also named a Best Book of the Century by the New York Times. Peters also speaks about her forthcoming collection, (Random House, 2025), the fascinating history and idiom of queer and trans lumberjack culture, and fashioning queer and trans...
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Critical Humanities: A Conversation with Paul Gilroy
FQT Podcast
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Paul Gilroy, who is Professor of the Humanities and Founding Director of the for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at University College London. Professor Gilroy's scholarship has been globally influential, especially his books There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack(1987), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), and Against Race (2000). In 2019 Professor Gilroy was awarded the Holberg Prize by the government of Norway in recognition of his scholarship. Che Gossett speaks with Professor Gilroy...
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Amy Tobin on Feminist Art History
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In this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Amy Tobin, University of Cambridge Associate Professor in the History of Art and Curator of Contemporary Programmes, at Kettle’s Yard, about feminist art history, feminist art curation, coalitional politics and her book, (Yale UP, 2023), as well as her 2014 article, co-authored with Victorian Horne, "An unfinished revolution in art historiography, or how to write a feminist art history" in feminist review.
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The Antisocial and its Afterlives: Austin Svedjan and John Paul Ricco
FQT Podcast
In this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Austin Svedjan, doctoral student and Hamilton-Law Graduate Fellow in the Department of English at Penn, and John Paul Ricco, professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, about their co-edited special issue of the journal Postmodern Culture, which is freely available . Song credit: "If You Can't Help Me" by Brontez Purnell.
info_outlineIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with the luminary and accomplished filmmaker, director and producer Lilly Wachowski. Lilly Wachowski discusses some her most influential and heralded films, such as The Matrix, which she co-directed and filmed with her sister, filmmaker Lana Wachowski, as well as recent work she has been involved in either writing, directing and/or producing such as the Netflix series Sense8, and also the Showtime series Work in Progress, created by Abby McEnany and Tim Mason. Lilly Wachowski discusses trans politics, and the power of art to transform, forge bonds of solidarity, and create convivial spaces.