UB Gender Institute Spring Lecture 2018

Dr. Musser is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research is at the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality studies. Her monograph, Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014) uses masochism as a lens to theorize different felt relationships to power. The book beings together debates on masochism within feminism, discussions of masochism from psychoanalysis and critiques of colonialism, literary presentations of masochism, and performance and visual art that draws on masochism’s repertoire in order to make an argument about the relationship between sensation and knowledge production and the racialization of our current episteme of sexuality. Her current research project, “Brown Jouissance: Feminine Imaginings” uses women of color’s aesthetic labors to re-imagine epistemologies of sexuality so that they center brown femininity.

The UB Gender Institute and the HI Queer Studies Research Workshop are pleased to announce a masterclass with Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser in conjunction with her lecture. The masterclass will take place that morning (4/19) from 10am-12pm in 1032 Clemens. The masterclass requires RSVP and spaces will be filled on a first come first served basis. Participants will receive access to readings that they are expected to complete before the class. To RSVP, please contact Anne Marie Butler at abutler4@buffalo.edu