FQT Podcast

Mar 28 2025 45 ep. 39 mins 38

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Podcast of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by associate director Che Gossett and producer Lane T. Speidel

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Life On Mars: a Conversation with Tracy K. Smith

Mar 28 2025 35 mins

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with poet and professor Tracy K. Smith. Smith served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, and her book of poetry Life on Mars (Greywolf Press, 2011) received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. Smith is Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute as well as professor of English and of African

ALL EXITS with LTS (2022)

Mar 27 2025 72 mins

This 2022 podcast episode is a conversation between Maria Murphy (then associate director of the FQT Center) and Lane Timothy Speidel, Philadelphia artist, musician, writer, and Gender Jawn's podcast producer. In their new exhibition at Vox Populi Gallery, ALL EXITS, Lane Speidel lets us into the backstage of the mind. Sculptures and paintings create a night that is a frozen dre

Negative Life: A Conversation with Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay

Mar 14 2025 41 mins

In this episode Che Gossett, associate director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania speaks with the authors of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024) professors Steven Swarbrick of CUNY and Jean Thomas Tremblay of York University. They discuss the concept of negative life, the contemporary

Care at the End of the World: A Conversation with Jina B. Kim

Feb 25 2025 33 mins

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Jina B. Kim, who is assistant professor of English Language & Literature and of the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, about her forthcoming book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure: Crip-of-Color Writing after the U.S. Welfare State (Duke UP, March 2025). Professor Kim speaks about her art

Rearranging Desires: A Conversation with Gayatri Spivak

Jan 21 2025 49 mins

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with literary theory, philosophy, and subaltern studies scholar Professor Gayatri Spivak, who is University Professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, the 2012 recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, and the author of numerous field shaping books and articles, inclu

The Reorder of Things: A Conversation with Roderick Ferguson

Dec 20 2024 29 mins

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Roderick Ferguson, professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Ferguson was the 2018-2019 president of the American Studies Association. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California, 201

Black Nihilism and Spirituality: A Conversation with Calvin Warren

Dec 13 2024 35 mins

In this episode, recorded during fall semester 2023, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Calvin Warren, associate professor of African American Studies at Emory University about his book Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism and Emancipation (Duke UP, 2018), and his thoughts on Black nihilism and spirituality. Music credits: "There Are Other Worlds (Have They Not To

Poetics Against Extraction: A Conversation with Jackie Wang

Dec 04 2024 42 mins

In this conversation FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with poet, author and professor Jackie Wang. Wang is an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018), and Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun (Semiotext(e), 2023), as well as works of poetry, such as The Sunflower

Stag Dance: Torrey Peters on Lumberjacks and Creating Queer & Trans Literary Worlds

Nov 25 2024 31 mins

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett interviews novelist Torrey Peters about her intellectual and writerly formation, her early online novella publications, The Masker and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, and her novel Detransition Baby (One World, 2021) which received the the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction, and was also named a Best Book of the Century

Critical Humanities: A Conversation with Paul Gilroy

Nov 15 2024 41 mins

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Paul Gilroy, who is Professor of the Humanities and Founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at University College London. Professor Gilroy's scholarship has been globally influential, especially his books There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack(1987), The Black Atlant