The Reorder of Things: A Conversation with Roderick Ferguson

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, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota, 2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004).  

 

Song Credit: Adrian Piper being interviewed about and performing her street performance piece “Mythic Being”, excerpted from “Other Than Art’s Sake” a film by Peter Kennedy from 1973