Kyla Schuller
Biographic Data
| ID | 565767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyla Schuller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyla |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuller |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULLER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gender Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Plasticity and Fungibility
This article critically examines the role of neurobiology in the work of Sylvia Wynter through her own “pieza framework.” Wynter argues that the pieza, the figure of exchange invented at the beginning of the slave trade, haunts contemporary political economy through multiple forms of human fungibility. Reading this intervention alongside and against her deployment of neural plasticity, the author reconsiders the relationship between race, gender,…
Reversible Human
This article explores the history and practice of rectal feeding, an anachronistic obstetric practice used recently as a form of medical rape in US Central Intelligence Agency prisons. The article outlines how racialized themes of counterterrorist interrogation intersect with behavioralist logics of torture in CIA uses of rectal feeding on Muslim prisoners captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking these prisoners to US security state fears of…
Trans* Plasticity and the Ontology of Race and Species
During the 1920s, French surgeon Serge Voronoff became an international sensation for his technique of grafting chimpanzee testicular matter into human testicles. Félicien Champsaur’s 1929 popular speculative fiction novel, Nora, la guenon devenue femme (Nora, the Ape-Woman), imagines the possibilities of human-ape ontological and erotic proximity suggested by Voronoff’s practice of gland xenotransplantation, or transspecies transplantation. This…
The Reeducation of Race
This article traces the emergence of racial plasticity in the discourse of midcentury liberal internationalism and antiracism, focusing on the 1950 Statement on Race by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author argues that the statement is both an important precursor to contemporary celebrations of plasticity and an object lesson in the conceptual and political limitations of plasticity as a response to race a…
The Biology of Intimacy: Lamarckian Evolution and the Sentimental Novel
This article explores the enabling intimacy between sentimentalism and biopolitics by turning to a less-than-obvious and yet characteristic example of the sentimental mode: the ubiquitous orphan tale of the mid- to late nineteenth century. It argues that individual orphan heroines of domestic plots not only function as tropes of domestic and national belonging, as has been widely recognized, but also of population regulation at the biological lev…
Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Cristin Ellis
Reviewed by: Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Cristin Ellis Kyla Schuller Cristin Ellis. Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: Fordham UP, 2018. 232 pp. $30.00. Can posthumanism develop an effective antiracist politics? This is the stirring question at the heart of Cristin Ellis's Antebellum Posthuman. Her exceptionally well-written and cogently argued book u…
Forum Introduction: Toward a Biopolitics of Early America
Forum Introduction:"Toward a Biopolitics of Early America" Greta LaFleur (bio) and Kyla Schuller (bio) Biopolitical frameworks have not yet received consistent or sustained attention in many subfields of early American studies. We therefore decided to include a forum to provide an opportunity for something of a prolegomenous discussion of new directions and possible interventions at the intersections of these spheres of inquiry. The forum compris…
Introduction: Technologies of Life and Architectures of Death in Early America
Introduction:Technologies of Life and Architectures of Death in Early America Greta LaFleur (bio) and Kyla Schuller (bio) Theories of biopolitics have had little to say about early America. Biopolitics as a framework has become essential for analyzing oppressive power structures in Black studies, Asian American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory, among other fields.1 However, biopolitics has not yet been well elaborated in re…
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century
In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecologi…
The Microbial Self: Sensation and Sympoiesis
The Microbial SelfSensation and Sympoiesis Kyla Schuller (bio) The idea that we people are really walking assemblages,beings who have integrated various other kinds oforganisms—that each of us is a sort of loosecommittee—opens up ... many challenging speculations.When "the committee" gets sick, is simply a single animalgetting sick, or is illness more a rearrangement of the members? —Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Acquiring Genomes, 19 Consider …
Biopower Below and Before the Individual
Review Article| October 01 2016 Biopower Below and Before the Individual Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. Preciado, Paul B., translated by Benderson, Bruce. New York: Feminist Press, 2013. x + 427 pp.The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies. Lee, Rachel C.. New York: New York University Press, 2014. vi + 325 pp.Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Ninet…
The Fossil and the Photograph: Red Cloud, Prehistoric Media, and Dispossession in Perpetuity
Two late-nineteenth-century media technologies purportedly recording the evolutionary past —the fossil and the photograph—helped naturalize the spread of settler colonialism across the Northern Plains. Settler colonial biopower works in the spaces in-between life and death to dispossess indigenous peoples of their land in perpetuity, seizing prehistory simultaneously with the present and the future. I uncover how Oglala leader Red Cloud drew on i…
Sex before Sexuality
Book Review| June 01 2014 Sex before Sexuality Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America. Coviello, Peter. New York: New York University Press, 2013. xiii + 253 pp. Kyla Schuller Kyla Schuller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 384–386. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2422728 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kyla Schuller; Sex before S…
Taxonomies of Feeling: The Epistemology of Sentimentalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Racial and Sexual Science
Despite scholarly assumptions that the scientific is opposed to the sentimental, sentimentalism shaped racial and sexual science. I argue that the once-prominent American School of Evolution translated the sensationist epistemology, in which all knowledge derives from the senses, into an explanation of species and race formation. In this view, species originated in sense-based experience and civilization originated in sentiment, granting individu…
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century
In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecologi…
Introduction: Technologies of Life and Architectures of Death in Early America
Introduction:Technologies of Life and Architectures of Death in Early America Greta LaFleur (bio) and Kyla Schuller (bio) Theories of biopolitics have had little to say about early America. Biopolitics as a framework has become essential for analyzing oppressive power structures in Black studies, Asian American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory, among other fields.1 However, biopolitics has not yet been well elaborated in re…
The Fossil and the Photograph: Red Cloud, Prehistoric Media, and Dispossession in Perpetuity
Two late-nineteenth-century media technologies purportedly recording the evolutionary past —the fossil and the photograph—helped naturalize the spread of settler colonialism across the Northern Plains. Settler colonial biopower works in the spaces in-between life and death to dispossess indigenous peoples of their land in perpetuity, seizing prehistory simultaneously with the present and the future. I uncover how Oglala leader Red Cloud drew on i…
Taxonomies of Feeling: The Epistemology of Sentimentalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Racial and Sexual Science
Despite scholarly assumptions that the scientific is opposed to the sentimental, sentimentalism shaped racial and sexual science. I argue that the once-prominent American School of Evolution translated the sensationist epistemology, in which all knowledge derives from the senses, into an explanation of species and race formation. In this view, species originated in sense-based experience and civilization originated in sentiment, granting individu…
Taxonomies of Feeling: The Epistemology of Sentimentalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Racial and Sexual Science
Despite scholarly assumptions that the scientific is opposed to the sentimental, sentimentalism shaped racial and sexual science. I argue that the once-prominent American School of Evolution translated the sensationist epistemology, in which all knowledge derives from the senses, into an explanation of species and race formation. In this view, species originated in sense-based experience and civilization originated in sentiment, granting individu…
Sex before Sexuality
Book Review| June 01 2014 Sex before Sexuality Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America. Coviello, Peter. New York: New York University Press, 2013. xiii + 253 pp. Kyla Schuller Kyla Schuller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 384–386. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2422728 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kyla Schuller; Sex before S…
Biopower Below and Before the Individual
Review Article| October 01 2016 Biopower Below and Before the Individual Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. Preciado, Paul B., translated by Benderson, Bruce. New York: Feminist Press, 2013. x + 427 pp.The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies. Lee, Rachel C.. New York: New York University Press, 2014. vi + 325 pp.Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Ninet…
The Fossil and the Photograph: Red Cloud, Prehistoric Media, and Dispossession in Perpetuity
Two late-nineteenth-century media technologies purportedly recording the evolutionary past —the fossil and the photograph—helped naturalize the spread of settler colonialism across the Northern Plains. Settler colonial biopower works in the spaces in-between life and death to dispossess indigenous peoples of their land in perpetuity, seizing prehistory simultaneously with the present and the future. I uncover how Oglala leader Red Cloud drew on i…
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century
In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecologi…
The Microbial Self: Sensation and Sympoiesis
The Microbial SelfSensation and Sympoiesis Kyla Schuller (bio) The idea that we people are really walking assemblages,beings who have integrated various other kinds oforganisms—that each of us is a sort of loosecommittee—opens up ... many challenging speculations.When "the committee" gets sick, is simply a single animalgetting sick, or is illness more a rearrangement of the members? —Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Acquiring Genomes, 19 Consider …
Forum Introduction: Toward a Biopolitics of Early America
Forum Introduction:"Toward a Biopolitics of Early America" Greta LaFleur (bio) and Kyla Schuller (bio) Biopolitical frameworks have not yet received consistent or sustained attention in many subfields of early American studies. We therefore decided to include a forum to provide an opportunity for something of a prolegomenous discussion of new directions and possible interventions at the intersections of these spheres of inquiry. The forum compris…
Introduction: Technologies of Life and Architectures of Death in Early America
Introduction:Technologies of Life and Architectures of Death in Early America Greta LaFleur (bio) and Kyla Schuller (bio) Theories of biopolitics have had little to say about early America. Biopolitics as a framework has become essential for analyzing oppressive power structures in Black studies, Asian American studies, gender and sexuality studies, and queer theory, among other fields.1 However, biopolitics has not yet been well elaborated in re…
Plasticity and Fungibility
This article critically examines the role of neurobiology in the work of Sylvia Wynter through her own “pieza framework.” Wynter argues that the pieza, the figure of exchange invented at the beginning of the slave trade, haunts contemporary political economy through multiple forms of human fungibility. Reading this intervention alongside and against her deployment of neural plasticity, the author reconsiders the relationship between race, gender,…
Reversible Human
This article explores the history and practice of rectal feeding, an anachronistic obstetric practice used recently as a form of medical rape in US Central Intelligence Agency prisons. The article outlines how racialized themes of counterterrorist interrogation intersect with behavioralist logics of torture in CIA uses of rectal feeding on Muslim prisoners captured in Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking these prisoners to US security state fears of…
Trans* Plasticity and the Ontology of Race and Species
During the 1920s, French surgeon Serge Voronoff became an international sensation for his technique of grafting chimpanzee testicular matter into human testicles. Félicien Champsaur’s 1929 popular speculative fiction novel, Nora, la guenon devenue femme (Nora, the Ape-Woman), imagines the possibilities of human-ape ontological and erotic proximity suggested by Voronoff’s practice of gland xenotransplantation, or transspecies transplantation. This…
The Reeducation of Race
This article traces the emergence of racial plasticity in the discourse of midcentury liberal internationalism and antiracism, focusing on the 1950 Statement on Race by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author argues that the statement is both an important precursor to contemporary celebrations of plasticity and an object lesson in the conceptual and political limitations of plasticity as a response to race a…
The Biology of Intimacy: Lamarckian Evolution and the Sentimental Novel
This article explores the enabling intimacy between sentimentalism and biopolitics by turning to a less-than-obvious and yet characteristic example of the sentimental mode: the ubiquitous orphan tale of the mid- to late nineteenth century. It argues that individual orphan heroines of domestic plots not only function as tropes of domestic and national belonging, as has been widely recognized, but also of population regulation at the biological lev…
Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Cristin Ellis
Reviewed by: Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Cristin Ellis Kyla Schuller Cristin Ellis. Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: Fordham UP, 2018. 232 pp. $30.00. Can posthumanism develop an effective antiracist politics? This is the stirring question at the heart of Cristin Ellis's Antebellum Posthuman. Her exceptionally well-written and cogently argued book u…
Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Biopower (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)