ENGL 739: Women of Color Feminisms

Professor Seulghee Lee

Fall 2025: Tuesday, 6:00–8:45

Course description:

The ambit of women-of-color feminism designates at least four things: an existing socio-political movement, an established yet expanding field of thought and study, an insurgent method of thinking and action, and an avenue of imagining modes of being and building worlds anew. This course will attend to all four, though it will definitively emphasize the last — we will learn together what it means to think through the lenses of women-of-color experiences against the imposed violences in and of white supremacist heteropatriarchy, particularly in the neoliberal era. In doing so, we will sample from critical voices from this tradition and consider how its thinkers have theorized community, embodiment, love, power, resistance, sociality, time, violence, and voice. We will engage with both constitutive and adjacent discourses of Asian American, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, SWANA feminisms; abolition studies; queer of color critique; gender theory; racial misandry studies; and trans studies. No prior work in these discourses is necessary, though the cultivation of your commitment to women-of-color liberation will be our fundamental aim.