The Women Scholars' Speaker Series is pleased to present Dr. Jennifer Doyle, Professor of English at UC Riverside. Professor Doyle spoke about the work involved in her recent book Campus Sex, Campus Security.

Jennifer Doyle teaches arts-centred courses in Gender Studies/Queer Theory and American Literature/Visual Culture. She is the author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2017), Campus Sex/Campus Security (2015), Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (2013) and co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996). She guest-curated Nao Bustamente: Soldadera (2015) for the Vincent Price Art Museum, and worked closely with the artist in developing that project. She guest curated The Tip of Her Tongue, a seven-performance series for The Broad Museum (2015-2017), and I Feel Different, a group exhibition for LACE (2010). In 2018, she curated Ron Athey’s Gifts of the Spirit, working with producing partners Volume and The Broad, and co-curated Aqui No Hay Virgenes: Latina Lesbian Visibility for the Advocate Gallery and LACE (2007). She is a member of the Board of Directors at Human Resources Los Angeles, and is an active member of that organization’s curatorial team. She was the 2013-2014 Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the University of the Arts, London, and is a recipient of an Arts Writers Grant.

Campus Sex, Campus Security was written in a fever: the book was published in 2015, prior to #metoo and the transformation in journalism which grew around this shift in discourse about harassment. In this talk, Jennifer will share the process of writing this book, and shifts in her thinking as she's centered more and more of her work around harassment and its ecologies.