Elisabeth Windle
Biographic Data
| ID | 6212266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Windle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Windle |
| SIGNATURE | WINDLE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Teaching Intersectionality in the Age of Intersectionality
Taking their cue from the internet and popular cultures in which they engage, college students are becoming more comfortable with the notion of intersectionality, a term first coined in the late 1980s by the critical race scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. Drawing from her legal training as well as Black feminist precursors such as Sojourner Truth, Crenshaw shows how to best understand the experiences of the multiply marginalized, not through a simple pr…
Capote’s Swans
Douglas McGrath’s 2006 film Infamous recounts Truman Capote’s research travels to Kansas in the late 1950s. In opposition to the “effemiphobic” rhetoric of many contemporary gay cultures, Infamous highlights Capote’s effeminacy and relationships with women as creatively and personally productive, offering nostalgic alternatives to both the gay cultural attachment to masculinity and the powerful historical narratives about the inherent abjection o…
It Never Really Was the Same”
This article intervenes in queer theoretical approaches to nostalgia through an analysis of the 2004 film Brother to Brother, which presents a fictionalized account of the final months of the life of Harlem Renaissance artist and writer Richard Bruce Nugent. One reading of this film would insist that it merely substantiates the claims made in other contexts by a number of queer theorists that nostalgia is bad history and worse theory—uncomplicate…
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It Never Really Was the Same”
This article intervenes in queer theoretical approaches to nostalgia through an analysis of the 2004 film Brother to Brother, which presents a fictionalized account of the final months of the life of Harlem Renaissance artist and writer Richard Bruce Nugent. One reading of this film would insist that it merely substantiates the claims made in other contexts by a number of queer theorists that nostalgia is bad history and worse theory—uncomplicate…
Capote’s Swans
Douglas McGrath’s 2006 film Infamous recounts Truman Capote’s research travels to Kansas in the late 1950s. In opposition to the “effemiphobic” rhetoric of many contemporary gay cultures, Infamous highlights Capote’s effeminacy and relationships with women as creatively and personally productive, offering nostalgic alternatives to both the gay cultural attachment to masculinity and the powerful historical narratives about the inherent abjection o…
Teaching Intersectionality in the Age of Intersectionality
Taking their cue from the internet and popular cultures in which they engage, college students are becoming more comfortable with the notion of intersectionality, a term first coined in the late 1980s by the critical race scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. Drawing from her legal training as well as Black feminist precursors such as Sojourner Truth, Crenshaw shows how to best understand the experiences of the multiply marginalized, not through a simple pr…
Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Brother (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Conversation (1 work)