Episode 3 - Dr Xine Yao on Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze

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The Greatest Good

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Step into the minds of leading academics with UCL Press Play: a podcast and documentary series featuring groundbreaking voices and cutting edge ideas. Join UCL academics as they uncover ground-breaking new ideas and fresh insights on diverse topics such as queer histories, neurodiversity, and climate justice. Website and transcripts: https://uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-play/

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Episode 3 - Dr Xine Yao on Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze

The Greatest Good

32 minutes

1 year ago

Episode 3 - Dr Xine Yao on Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze

Professor Philip Schofield discusses queer aesthetics and the idea of a racialised panoptic gaze with Dr Xine Yao, the co-director of qUCL and an expert on American literature in the Department of English. They dig into the archive of bestselling, but now forgotten, American novels, and tease out the ways in which the biggest issues of the 19th century still resonate in everyday life today.

Host: Professor Philip Schofield (Director of the Bentham Project, UCL)

Guest: Dr Xine Yao (Department of English, UCL)

Commissioners: Professor David Docherty OBE & Dr Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost LCCOS: Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science, UCL)

Director: Justin Hardy (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media, UCL)

Producer: Stevie Doran

Date: 28 October 2024

Duration: 32:27