Matt Brim
Biographic Data
| ID | 1255159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Brim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Brim |
| SIGNATURE | BRIM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Staten Island |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6497-8484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alongside desire: Object Lessons and Working-Class Studies
This article reconsiders Robyn Wiegman's Object Lessons (2012) as a book that helps to discern a necessary relation between Queer Studies and Working-Class Studies, two fields that do not often share a footprint in the US academy. That relation emerges for the author in the unexpected resonance between Object Lessons and Vivian Gornick's recently republished The Romance of American Communism (2020), a classic text about the politics of passionate…
Please Send Queer Food
I was asked to contribute to this special issue on the state of American democracy because I recently published a book about class stratification and race sorting in U.S. higher education institutions. The premise of the book is that, regardless of what the University claims, a thoroughgoing commitment to class and race hierarchy defines its functional mission. Sustaining social divisions is what it does best, taken as a whole system. In other wo…
Imagining Queer Methods
Reimagines the field of queer studies by asking “How do we do queer theory?” Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field. From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthro…
Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University
In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in overflowing classrooms at no-name colleges; with no research budget; without access to decent food; with kids in tow; in a state of homelessness. Draw…
Poor Queer Studies: Class, Race, and the Field
This study asks, What are the material conditions under which queer studies is done in the academy? It finds a longstanding association of queer studies with the well-resourced, selective colleges and flagship campuses that are the drivers of class and race stratification in higher education in the U.S. That is, the field of queer studies, as a recognizable academic formation, has been structured by the material and intellectual resources of prec…
Introduction: Queer Methods
Introduction:Queer Methods Matt Brim (bio) and Amin Ghaziani (bio) Queer studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars have begun to identify research protocols and practices that have been largely overshadowed by dramatic advances in queer theory. The 2010 volume Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research, edited by Kath Browne and Cath…
James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination
The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim's James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies to critically engage with and complicate the project of queering Baldwin and his work. Brim argues that Baldwin animates and, in contrast, disrupts both the black gay literary tradition and the qu…
Queer Pedagogical Desire: A Study Guide
This essay explores the queer pedagogical desires that attended my writing of the Study Guide for the documentary film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (Jim Hubbard, 2012). The analysis takes up Robyn Wiegman’s central question in Object Lessons, “What is it we expect our relationship to our objects of study to do?”, which is of particular importance to the discipline of queer studies insofar as the field is oriented around the desire to meld…
James Baldwin's Queer Utility
Introduction: Queer Methods
Introduction:Queer Methods Matt Brim (bio) and Amin Ghaziani (bio) Queer studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars have begun to identify research protocols and practices that have been largely overshadowed by dramatic advances in queer theory. The 2010 volume Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research, edited by Kath Browne and Cath…
Poor Queer Studies: Class, Race, and the Field
This study asks, What are the material conditions under which queer studies is done in the academy? It finds a longstanding association of queer studies with the well-resourced, selective colleges and flagship campuses that are the drivers of class and race stratification in higher education in the U.S. That is, the field of queer studies, as a recognizable academic formation, has been structured by the material and intellectual resources of prec…
James Baldwin's Queer Utility
Queer Pedagogical Desire: A Study Guide
This essay explores the queer pedagogical desires that attended my writing of the Study Guide for the documentary film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (Jim Hubbard, 2012). The analysis takes up Robyn Wiegman’s central question in Object Lessons, “What is it we expect our relationship to our objects of study to do?”, which is of particular importance to the discipline of queer studies insofar as the field is oriented around the desire to meld…
James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination
The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim's James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies to critically engage with and complicate the project of queering Baldwin and his work. Brim argues that Baldwin animates and, in contrast, disrupts both the black gay literary tradition and the qu…
Introduction: Queer Methods
Introduction:Queer Methods Matt Brim (bio) and Amin Ghaziani (bio) Queer studies is experiencing a methodological renaissance. In both the humanities and the social sciences, scholars have begun to identify research protocols and practices that have been largely overshadowed by dramatic advances in queer theory. The 2010 volume Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research, edited by Kath Browne and Cath…
Imagining Queer Methods
Reimagines the field of queer studies by asking “How do we do queer theory?” Imagining Queer Methods showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field. From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthro…
Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University
In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies. Brim shows how queer studies also takes place beyond the halls of flagship institutions: in night school; after a three-hour commute; in overflowing classrooms at no-name colleges; with no research budget; without access to decent food; with kids in tow; in a state of homelessness. Draw…
Poor Queer Studies: Class, Race, and the Field
This study asks, What are the material conditions under which queer studies is done in the academy? It finds a longstanding association of queer studies with the well-resourced, selective colleges and flagship campuses that are the drivers of class and race stratification in higher education in the U.S. That is, the field of queer studies, as a recognizable academic formation, has been structured by the material and intellectual resources of prec…
Please Send Queer Food
I was asked to contribute to this special issue on the state of American democracy because I recently published a book about class stratification and race sorting in U.S. higher education institutions. The premise of the book is that, regardless of what the University claims, a thoroughgoing commitment to class and race hierarchy defines its functional mission. Sustaining social divisions is what it does best, taken as a whole system. In other wo…
Alongside desire: Object Lessons and Working-Class Studies
This article reconsiders Robyn Wiegman's Object Lessons (2012) as a book that helps to discern a necessary relation between Queer Studies and Working-Class Studies, two fields that do not often share a footprint in the US academy. That relation emerges for the author in the unexpected resonance between Object Lessons and Vivian Gornick's recently republished The Romance of American Communism (2020), a classic text about the politics of passionate…
Gender Studies (9 works) · Queer (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (6 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Law (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Queer theory (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)