John Champagne
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1106637 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Champagne |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Champagne |
| FIRMA | CHAMPAGNE J |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Baron Corvo’s Venice Letters and Modern Male Homosexuality
Queer Ventennio
My Fault, Mussolini as I Knew Him
Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama
Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated through melodrama. Wide
Of Politics, Aesthetics, and Guilty Subjects
Of Politics, Aesthetics, and Guilty Subjects" John Champagne (bio) A review of Shapiro, Michael T. Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method, After the Aesthetic Turn. London: Routledge, 2013 In her recent book Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman invites those of us working in identity based studies—that is, fields such as Queer Studies, Women's Studies, Intersectionality, Ethnic Studies—to ponder our disciplines' "field imaginary"—the often taken for grant…
Floating Call Boys and Agile Homosexuals
Because works of nonfiction are always composed of literary tropes and metaphors, they have to be read critically for the ways in which their truth claims are potentially structured by ideologies and stereotypes. This essay reads passages from Richard Sennett's sociological analysis Flesh and Stone, The Body and the City in Western Civilization and Joseph Brodsky's memoir Watermark in order to demonstrate how these alleged works of nonfiction sho…
Sandro Penna and anti-Oedipal impegno
A number of Italianists have recently argued the need to reconsider the term impegno in the light of feminist and queer critiques. Such critiques do not simply highlight the way in which impegno has usually been construed as a masculine, heterosexual domain. They also note that its employment often presupposes a gendered, heteronormative account of politics itself. Complicating this sense of politics via a reading of recent work in queer theory w…
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of some of the ideological and material contradictions that animated the regime, it argues that fascist masculinity was itself highly contradictory. It bri…
Que(e)rying “My Man Bovanne”
In his 1985 essay “The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual,” Cornel West argues for what he calls the insurgency model of Black intellectual activity. This model “builds upon, yet goes beyond” three
Walt Whitman, Our Great Gay Poet
This article surveys the critical debates around Walt Whitman's “Calamus” cluster, arguing that a “queer” reading of Whitman—one that does not see him as, for example, a closeted homosexual who censored his work for fear of being “outed”—is both historically accurate and politically efficacious. While previous efforts to reclaim Whitman as “our great gay poet” are understandable—particularly given critical readings of Whitman that denied the homo…
‘Job Seekers’ and ‘Enterprise Incubators’
In Stalled Democracy, Eva Bellin argues that in the case of countries like Tunisia—states that enter the process of industrial development relatively late in the capitalist game—state‐sponsored industrialization has unintended consequences. On the one hand, when the authoritarian state encourages private sector capital and labour, it sows the seeds of democratic reform by developing social forces that ultimately achieve enough power to challenge …
A Feminist Pirandello
Given that Luigi Pirandello's 1930 Come tu mi vuoi (As You Desire Me) is about a woman's attempt to determine her identity, one would think that the play would be praised by feminists. In fact, some critics argue that it simply reinforces traditional gender norms. This essay offers a different feminist interpretation of the play, one that foregrounds the question of female agency, L'Ignota is the only character who may know the truth of her ident…
The Easy Way Out
Book Review| April 01 2002 THE EASY WAY OUT: Gays and Lesbians in Academia Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy William G. Tierney Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1997. xxiii + 186 pp.$64.95 cloth, $32.95 paperPoisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia Toni A. H. McNaron Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. xiv + 234 pp. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paperLesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom Beth …
Nietzsche, Autobiography, History
How might gay and lesbian literature be read not as a mimetic representation of homosexuality, but as an activity linked to problems of subjectivity and historiography? Reading Dale Peck's novel Martin and John alongside passages from Friedrich Nietzsche's “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life” and Sigmund Freud's “Mourning and Melancholia,” this essay argues for an understanding of Peck's text as an attempt to link two apparently di…
Stop Reading Films
In a column entitled Q & A, the February 1996 issue of Art Forum breathlessly confides, Today, pornography seems to be on everyone's mind. Can this be called a porno moment?' The presence of a workshop entitled Pedagogy and Porn at the 1995 meeting of the Society for Cinema Studies suggests that cinema studies may indeed be experiencing such a moment, as does a recent issue of Jump Cut that features a series of articles on teaching sexual images.…
Seven Speculations on Queers and Class
Combining a critique of both recent work in gay studies and certain contemporary cultural practices within the gay community with a number of personal anecdotes related to the author's personal and professional life as a novelist and teacher, "Seven Speculations on Queers and Class" argues, through a reading of a variety of texts, the necessity of understanding what Jeffrey Weeks has termed "the class applications of the homosexual categorization…
Stop Reading Films
In a column entitled Q & A, the February 1996 issue of Art Forum breathlessly confides, Today, pornography seems to be on everyone's mind. Can this be called a porno moment?' The presence of a workshop entitled Pedagogy and Porn at the 1995 meeting of the Society for Cinema Studies suggests that cinema studies may indeed be experiencing such a moment, as does a recent issue of Jump Cut that features a series of articles on teaching sexual images.…
Seven Speculations on Queers and Class
Combining a critique of both recent work in gay studies and certain contemporary cultural practices within the gay community with a number of personal anecdotes related to the author's personal and professional life as a novelist and teacher, "Seven Speculations on Queers and Class" argues, through a reading of a variety of texts, the necessity of understanding what Jeffrey Weeks has termed "the class applications of the homosexual categorization…
The Easy Way Out
Book Review| April 01 2002 THE EASY WAY OUT: Gays and Lesbians in Academia Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy William G. Tierney Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1997. xxiii + 186 pp.$64.95 cloth, $32.95 paperPoisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia Toni A. H. McNaron Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. xiv + 234 pp. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paperLesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom Beth …
Seven Speculations on Queers and Class
Combining a critique of both recent work in gay studies and certain contemporary cultural practices within the gay community with a number of personal anecdotes related to the author's personal and professional life as a novelist and teacher, "Seven Speculations on Queers and Class" argues, through a reading of a variety of texts, the necessity of understanding what Jeffrey Weeks has termed "the class applications of the homosexual categorization…
Stop Reading Films
In a column entitled Q & A, the February 1996 issue of Art Forum breathlessly confides, Today, pornography seems to be on everyone's mind. Can this be called a porno moment?' The presence of a workshop entitled Pedagogy and Porn at the 1995 meeting of the Society for Cinema Studies suggests that cinema studies may indeed be experiencing such a moment, as does a recent issue of Jump Cut that features a series of articles on teaching sexual images.…
Nietzsche, Autobiography, History
How might gay and lesbian literature be read not as a mimetic representation of homosexuality, but as an activity linked to problems of subjectivity and historiography? Reading Dale Peck's novel Martin and John alongside passages from Friedrich Nietzsche's “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life” and Sigmund Freud's “Mourning and Melancholia,” this essay argues for an understanding of Peck's text as an attempt to link two apparently di…
The Easy Way Out
Book Review| April 01 2002 THE EASY WAY OUT: Gays and Lesbians in Academia Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy William G. Tierney Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1997. xxiii + 186 pp.$64.95 cloth, $32.95 paperPoisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia Toni A. H. McNaron Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. xiv + 234 pp. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paperLesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom Beth …
A Feminist Pirandello
Given that Luigi Pirandello's 1930 Come tu mi vuoi (As You Desire Me) is about a woman's attempt to determine her identity, one would think that the play would be praised by feminists. In fact, some critics argue that it simply reinforces traditional gender norms. This essay offers a different feminist interpretation of the play, one that foregrounds the question of female agency, L'Ignota is the only character who may know the truth of her ident…
‘Job Seekers’ and ‘Enterprise Incubators’
In Stalled Democracy, Eva Bellin argues that in the case of countries like Tunisia—states that enter the process of industrial development relatively late in the capitalist game—state‐sponsored industrialization has unintended consequences. On the one hand, when the authoritarian state encourages private sector capital and labour, it sows the seeds of democratic reform by developing social forces that ultimately achieve enough power to challenge …
Walt Whitman, Our Great Gay Poet
This article surveys the critical debates around Walt Whitman's “Calamus” cluster, arguing that a “queer” reading of Whitman—one that does not see him as, for example, a closeted homosexual who censored his work for fear of being “outed”—is both historically accurate and politically efficacious. While previous efforts to reclaim Whitman as “our great gay poet” are understandable—particularly given critical readings of Whitman that denied the homo…
Que(e)rying “My Man Bovanne”
In his 1985 essay “The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual,” Cornel West argues for what he calls the insurgency model of Black intellectual activity. This model “builds upon, yet goes beyond” three
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy
Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Examining paintings, films, music and literature in light of some of the ideological and material contradictions that animated the regime, it argues that fascist masculinity was itself highly contradictory. It bri…
Sandro Penna and anti-Oedipal impegno
A number of Italianists have recently argued the need to reconsider the term impegno in the light of feminist and queer critiques. Such critiques do not simply highlight the way in which impegno has usually been construed as a masculine, heterosexual domain. They also note that its employment often presupposes a gendered, heteronormative account of politics itself. Complicating this sense of politics via a reading of recent work in queer theory w…
Of Politics, Aesthetics, and Guilty Subjects
Of Politics, Aesthetics, and Guilty Subjects" John Champagne (bio) A review of Shapiro, Michael T. Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method, After the Aesthetic Turn. London: Routledge, 2013 In her recent book Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman invites those of us working in identity based studies—that is, fields such as Queer Studies, Women's Studies, Intersectionality, Ethnic Studies—to ponder our disciplines' "field imaginary"—the often taken for grant…
Floating Call Boys and Agile Homosexuals
Because works of nonfiction are always composed of literary tropes and metaphors, they have to be read critically for the ways in which their truth claims are potentially structured by ideologies and stereotypes. This essay reads passages from Richard Sennett's sociological analysis Flesh and Stone, The Body and the City in Western Civilization and Joseph Brodsky's memoir Watermark in order to demonstrate how these alleged works of nonfiction sho…
Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama
Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated through melodrama. Wide
My Fault, Mussolini as I Knew Him
Queer Ventennio
Baron Corvo’s Venice Letters and Modern Male Homosexuality
Sociology (13 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Art (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras)