Bobby Benedicto’s research interests lie at the intersections of queer theory, psychoanalysis, film and photography, death studies, and critical theory. He is jointly appointed in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at º«¹úÂãÎè, where he also leads the Sex in Theory working group. His current book project, Fatal Sex: Queer of Color Negativity and the Erotics of Death, examines the entanglements of sexuality, race, and death by engaging psychoanalysis and the writings of Georges Bataille. Challenging reparative frameworks in queer theory and queer of color critique, the book insists on the radical alterity at the heart of erotic life, foregrounding sexuality’s inassimilable negativity and its resistance to social and political recuperation. Benedicto is the author of Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), which received an honorable mention for the Ruth Benedict Prize in queer anthropology and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies. His research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC), the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Benedicto’s recent writing has appeared in Postmodern Culture, differences, Society & Space, and GLQ.
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I welcome prospective graduate students who wish to work on projects relating to death and sexuality, psychoanalysis and critical theory, film and visual culture, and other related topics.
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