Heather Love
Biographic Data
| ID | 81875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Love |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Love |
| SIGNATURE | LOVE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Critical Response IV: Crystal Blue Persuasion
Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Publication Information
Literary Studies and Human Flourishing
IEEE 3rd Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century: Being Human in a Global Village
We write with an update about the upcoming IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the Twenty-First Century (21CW). The safety and
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies
Playing for Keeps
This essay situates Maggie Nelson’s 2015 memoir The Argonauts within the context of the 2015 US Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage and contemporary debates about the politics of antinormativity in queer studies. I argue that Nelson’s refusal of the binary of normative/antinormative is salutary, but that her reliance on Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse raises difficult questions about the meaning of historical forms of queer e…
Beginning WithStigma
This essay reflects on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s citation of Erving Goffman’s 1963 book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity in her essay “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel” (1993). I track Sedgwick’s attempt to wrest queer studies away from “the deconstructive project” and argue that the turn to affect recalls the disavowed roots of the field in midcentury social science
The Temptations: Donna Haraway, Feminist Objectivity, and the Problem of Critique
The Ikehara Collection: Norbert Wiener's Japan Connections [Commentary]
Reports on Norbert Wiener's Ikehara Collection which shows one of cybernetics’ previously under-explored paths of influence: into the world of Japanese physics and information technology. It opens up exciting new possibilities for understanding how Norbert Wiener’s ideas have promulgated around the globe into the present
Critical Response IV Strange Quarry
History's Back Rooms: Carlos Motta Interviewed by Heather Love
Heather Love interviews Carlos Motta about his recent show Deviations (April 21-May 21, 2016, PPOW Gallery, New York City). They discuss LGBTQ politics, ephemeral and fugitive evidence, the violence of the archive, and unexpected intimacies with the queer past. Motta discusses his working methods, his relation to art institutions, and his efforts to link histories of exclusion and stigma to a critique of LGBTQ assimilation in the present
Queer Messes
Queer Messes Heather Love (bio) Survival is not an academic skill. —Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" In After Method: Mess in Social Science Research, John Law comments on the inadequacy of traditional methods to describe things that are "complex, diffuse, and messy" (2004, 2). He argues that, in approaching the world as a set of determinate processes, scholars strip it of contingency, ephemerality, and in…
Building a Better Description
Universally practiced across the disciplines, description is also consistently devalued or overlooked. In this introduction to the special issue "Description Across Disciplines," Sharon Marcus, Heather Love, and Stephen Best propose that description is a critical practice more complex (and less contradictory) than its detractors have taken it to be. They argue that turning critical attention toward description's nuances gives us access to the way…
“Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That”: Listening with, to, and through José Muñoz: The following is a transcript of a roundtable that took place on February 21, 2105 at the IASPM-US conference in Louis…
Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims
Doing Being Deviant: Deviance Studies, Description, and the Queer Ordinary
The appearance of deviance as a fact of social life-a permanent and unavoidable feature of social life and an object of study for the social scientist-distinguishes postwar deviance studies from the antimethod, anti-institutional, and antinormative field of queer studies. While deviance studies focused on the description and analysis of social norms, queer scholars saw themselves as participating in their subversion. This collapse of the position…
Reading the Social: Erving Goffman and Sexuality Studies
Queer
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Queer Critique, Queer Refusal
Close Reading and Thin Description
This essay considers practices of observation and description in postwar microsociology as a model for contemporary practices of reading. Returning to the work of Gilbert Ryle and Clifford Geertz, Heather Love contends that the dominance of thick description in both the humanities and social sciences has obscured the value of thin description as a method. Focusing on the work of Erving Goffman as well as large-scale collaborative projects such as…
What Does Lauren Berlant Teach Us about X
This essay considers method and style in the work of Lauren Berlant, with particular attention to questions of evidence, scale, and exemplarity. Berlant has explored these issues through her analysis of the genre of the case study, with its competing demands of singularity and representativeness. The essay tracks her concern with “the becoming general of singular things” from her analysis of queer and cultural studies methodology to the obese bod…
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
His Way”—on D. A. Miller
This essay pays tribute to the work of D. A. Miller, focusing in particular on the sociological dimensions of his criticism. Miller is often understood as a purely formalist critic; I argue that his formalism is in tension with a mapping of social and material realities, including not only the conditions of modern gay urban life but also social class in the postwar United States. Following biographical traces throughout his writing, I place him i…
Truth and Consequences: On Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading
Truth and Consequences: On Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading Heather Love (bio) Perhaps the most common description of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work is enabling—I have used it myself many times to describe her effect on me. But I sometimes wonder whether I know what this word means. The problem could be overdetermination: there are so many things I might mean. Insofar as Sedgwick helped to launch queer literary studies, she played a signific…
Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn
Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn Heather Love (bio) There is perhaps no term that carries more value in the humanities than "rich." In literary studies especially, richness is an undisputed-if largely uninterrogated-good; it signifies qualities associated with the complexity and polyvalence of texts and with the warmth and depth of experience. There is, to be sure, no necessary connection between the intricacy of texts…
Building a Better Description
Universally practiced across the disciplines, description is also consistently devalued or overlooked. In this introduction to the special issue "Description Across Disciplines," Sharon Marcus, Heather Love, and Stephen Best propose that description is a critical practice more complex (and less contradictory) than its detractors have taken it to be. They argue that turning critical attention toward description's nuances gives us access to the way…
Close Reading and Thin Description
This essay considers practices of observation and description in postwar microsociology as a model for contemporary practices of reading. Returning to the work of Gilbert Ryle and Clifford Geertz, Heather Love contends that the dominance of thick description in both the humanities and social sciences has obscured the value of thin description as a method. Focusing on the work of Erving Goffman as well as large-scale collaborative projects such as…
Doing Being Deviant: Deviance Studies, Description, and the Queer Ordinary
The appearance of deviance as a fact of social life-a permanent and unavoidable feature of social life and an object of study for the social scientist-distinguishes postwar deviance studies from the antimethod, anti-institutional, and antinormative field of queer studies. While deviance studies focused on the description and analysis of social norms, queer scholars saw themselves as participating in their subversion. This collapse of the position…
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Queer
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Spoiled Identity
Research Article| October 01 2001 “SPOILED IDENTITY”: Stephen Gordon's Loneliness and the Difficulties of Queer History Heather K. Love Heather K. Love Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 487–519. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-487 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions…
Playing for Keeps
This essay situates Maggie Nelson’s 2015 memoir The Argonauts within the context of the 2015 US Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage and contemporary debates about the politics of antinormativity in queer studies. I argue that Nelson’s refusal of the binary of normative/antinormative is salutary, but that her reliance on Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse raises difficult questions about the meaning of historical forms of queer e…
Oh, the fun we'll have: Remembering the Prospects for Sexuality Studies
Research Article| April 01 2004 “Oh, the fun we'll have”: Remembering the Prospects for Sexuality Studies Heather K. Love Heather K. Love Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2004) 10 (2): 258–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-2-258 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, 1982
Wedding Crashers
Book Review| January 01 2007 Wedding Crashers Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit London: British Film Institute, 2004. 208 pp. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive Lee Edelman Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 208 pp. Against Love: A Polemic Laura Kipnis New York: Vintage, 2004. 207 pp. Heather Love Heather Love Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (1): …
Queer Messes
Queer Messes Heather Love (bio) Survival is not an academic skill. —Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" In After Method: Mess in Social Science Research, John Law comments on the inadequacy of traditional methods to describe things that are "complex, diffuse, and messy" (2004, 2). He argues that, in approaching the world as a set of determinate processes, scholars strip it of contingency, ephemerality, and in…
Queer Critique, Queer Refusal
What Does Lauren Berlant Teach Us about X
This essay considers method and style in the work of Lauren Berlant, with particular attention to questions of evidence, scale, and exemplarity. Berlant has explored these issues through her analysis of the genre of the case study, with its competing demands of singularity and representativeness. The essay tracks her concern with “the becoming general of singular things” from her analysis of queer and cultural studies methodology to the obese bod…
Critical Response IV: Crystal Blue Persuasion
Spectacular Failure: The Figure of the Lesbian in Mulholland Drive
This essay considers the lesbian as a modern tragic figure through a reading of David Lynch's 2001 film Mulholland Drive. While many have identified Lynch's representation of female same-sex desire in the film as a textbook example of male fantasy, the film offers a subtle treatment of intimate relations between cultural plots of lesbian fantasy and lesbian tragedy. In this sense, Mulholland Drive insists on the importance of clich s and stereoty…
Hard Times and Heartaches: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness
This paper considers recent critical responses to Rad-clyffe Hall's 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness. While Hall's portrayal of mannish invert Stephen Gordon has had a troubled reception in this century, recent work celebrating butch-femme identity and practice has gained the novel wider acceptance among lesbian critics. While these recuperations are significant in working against homophobic readings of The Well, they often overlook the real dif…
Spoiled Identity
Research Article| October 01 2001 “SPOILED IDENTITY”: Stephen Gordon's Loneliness and the Difficulties of Queer History Heather K. Love Heather K. Love Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 487–519. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-487 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions…
The Right to Change My Mind: New Work in Trans Studies
Spectacular Failure: The Figure of the Lesbian in Mulholland Drive
This essay considers the lesbian as a modern tragic figure through a reading of David Lynch's 2001 film Mulholland Drive. While many have identified Lynch's representation of female same-sex desire in the film as a textbook example of male fantasy, the film offers a subtle treatment of intimate relations between cultural plots of lesbian fantasy and lesbian tragedy. In this sense, Mulholland Drive insists on the importance of clich s and stereoty…
Oh, the fun we'll have: Remembering the Prospects for Sexuality Studies
Research Article| April 01 2004 “Oh, the fun we'll have”: Remembering the Prospects for Sexuality Studies Heather K. Love Heather K. Love Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2004) 10 (2): 258–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-10-2-258 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Some Day My Mom Will Come
Some Day My Mom Will Come Heather Love (bio) Review of: Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Cultures of the Death Drive: Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia. Durham: Duke UP, 2003. Back in 1979, Robert Hass wrote, “all the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking.” He seemed to be referring to the lack of adequation between language and reality: “because there is in this world no one thing to which the bramble of blackberry cor…
Forced Exile: Walter Pater’s Queer Modernism
Living (and Dying) in the Other
July 01 2006 Living (and Dying) in the Other Heather Love Heather Love Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Heather Love Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (24): 16–25. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.24.16 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Vi…
Wedding Crashers
Book Review| January 01 2007 Wedding Crashers Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit London: British Film Institute, 2004. 208 pp. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive Lee Edelman Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 208 pp. Against Love: A Polemic Laura Kipnis New York: Vintage, 2004. 207 pp. Heather Love Heather Love Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (1): …
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer”
Book Review| September 01 2007 Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” Stockton, Kathryn Bond, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Durham, N.C.: Duke UP), 2006. 271 + xi pp. ISBN 0-8223-3796-7. Heather Love Heather Love University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Heather Love is the Watkins Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and t…
Gyn/Apology: Sarah Orne Jewett's Spinster Aesthetics
Gyn/ApologySarah Orne Jewett's Spinster Aesthetics Heather Love (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Frontispiece to Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett, ed. by Annie Fields (New York: Houghton Miffin, 1911). While the pinched life of the Victorian old maid can never return, the old maid herself is a social construction (and frequent scapegoat) we will need for as long as there are families. —Nina Auerbach "This book is about the journey of …
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History
National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the In…
Book Review| March 01 2009 National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity Heather Love Heather Love Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209. https:…
Truth and Consequences: On Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading
Truth and Consequences: On Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading Heather Love (bio) Perhaps the most common description of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work is enabling—I have used it myself many times to describe her effect on me. But I sometimes wonder whether I know what this word means. The problem could be overdetermination: there are so many things I might mean. Insofar as Sedgwick helped to launch queer literary studies, she played a signific…
Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, 1982
Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn
Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn Heather Love (bio) There is perhaps no term that carries more value in the humanities than "rich." In literary studies especially, richness is an undisputed-if largely uninterrogated-good; it signifies qualities associated with the complexity and polyvalence of texts and with the warmth and depth of experience. There is, to be sure, no necessary connection between the intricacy of texts…
His Way”—on D. A. Miller
This essay pays tribute to the work of D. A. Miller, focusing in particular on the sociological dimensions of his criticism. Miller is often understood as a purely formalist critic; I argue that his formalism is in tension with a mapping of social and material realities, including not only the conditions of modern gay urban life but also social class in the postwar United States. Following biographical traces throughout his writing, I place him i…
What Does Lauren Berlant Teach Us about X
This essay considers method and style in the work of Lauren Berlant, with particular attention to questions of evidence, scale, and exemplarity. Berlant has explored these issues through her analysis of the genre of the case study, with its competing demands of singularity and representativeness. The essay tracks her concern with “the becoming general of singular things” from her analysis of queer and cultural studies methodology to the obese bod…
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Queer Critique, Queer Refusal
Close Reading and Thin Description
This essay considers practices of observation and description in postwar microsociology as a model for contemporary practices of reading. Returning to the work of Gilbert Ryle and Clifford Geertz, Heather Love contends that the dominance of thick description in both the humanities and social sciences has obscured the value of thin description as a method. Focusing on the work of Erving Goffman as well as large-scale collaborative projects such as…
Reading the Social: Erving Goffman and Sexuality Studies
Queer
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
“Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That”: Listening with, to, and through José Muñoz: The following is a transcript of a roundtable that took place on February 21, 2105 at the IASPM-US conference in Louis…
Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims
Sociology (23 works) · Art (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Queer (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works)