Queer Studies

The discipline of Queer Studies encompasses theories and thinkers from numerous fields: cultural studies, gay and lesbian studies, race studies, women’s studies, media, postmodernism, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis and more.

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Sandy Runzo

Associate Professor

Director of Queer Studies

runzo@denison.edu

740-587-6494

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Queer Studies explores the ways that culture defines and regulates sexuality as well as the ways that sexuality structures and shapes social institutions.

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Swasey Chapel at dusk

Highlights

Queer Studies Archive

Spotlights

Hanada Al-Masri, Mohamed El-Sayed, Hannah Bennet

Building Public Speaking Skills

Students interacting with the About Ourselves/Inside Ourselves exhibit

How We Learn

A Look Inside Ourselves

LGBTQ+ Reunion audience at a panel discussion

How We Live

LGBTQ+ 30th Reunion

Professor-Morris

How We Learn

Building Understanding

Proud to have pride

How We Live

Proud to have pride

CeCe McGee ’15

Where We Go

Holding the Trust

How We Learn

Queer Studies is for Everyone

What's Happening

Students

Audio Story-telling

Each year, Journalism partners across a range of disciplines to tell stories from an inside perspective for the Denison Podcast-a-thon.

Alumni

Alumni Career Panel

Alumni from Black, Women & Gender, and Queer studies programs share their job search, workplace, and lives beyond Denison.

Exhibitions

QUEER@DENISON Artworks, Zines & Printed Matter

An Exhibition of Denison Student & Alumni Work at Stonewall Columbus

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