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Marc Stein: How to Become a Queer Historian
Jun 21 2022
This interview was originally published on Public Seminar and is reproduced here with permission.Marc SteinMarc Stein is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where he teaches U.S. law, politics, sexuality, gender, race, and social movements. He’s also an old friend: we met
How Queer Readings of Premodern Japanese Texts Help Us Redefine Desire
Aug 25 2021
By Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of GenjiWhen I first began working on A Proximate Remove, my goal was to write the book about sexuality, spatial representation, and sensation I wish had existed when I first encountered premodern Japanese
Editor Spotlight: Meet Niels Hooper, our History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies Editor
Apr 14 2021
As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Executive Editor Niels Hooper to talk about his History, American Studies, and Middle East Studies lists, and how our program has developed over the time he's worked at the Press. Niels also shares his journey from Oxford to
BDSM Opera? How the time-honored art form has always been about sensuality and eroticism
Oct 15 2020
This post is part of our AMS 2020 conference blog series. Check out our virtual exhibit page for more.By Axel Englund, author of Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on StageThe camera is rolling. Here is a middle-aged, bald nerd in thick glasses sitting at his mother’s kitchen tabl