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Reading for Queerness with Christine Varnado

Why do we need to be attuned to desire when we read? What is queerness and how can it help us read texts from different time periods? Christine Varnado talks about the important questions arising from her new book, The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern England, and takes us through a close reading workshop and some the urgent calls to embrace the pleasures of liiterary and aesthetic criticism.

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  • Christine Varnado
  • Literary scholar and theorist