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DESCRIPTION:“Materializing Queer Genealogies at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill”\n\nDr. Emily West, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa Cosponsored by the Department of History and Hamilton Library\n\nMeeting ID: 954 9489 9581\n\nPassword: kZYY3y\n\nThis talk focuses on Horace Walpole, a key figure in the history of the Gothic through his authorship of the first Gothic fiction (1764's The Castle of Otranto) and his design of a faux-Medieval castle at Strawberry Hill in London. Through a close reading of one artifact from Strawberry Hill -- a lantern designed to create Gothic atmosphere at the home's entrance -- I trace how Walpole appropriates the materials of genealogical projection to generate instead queer forms of intimacy, inheritance, and temporality. The lantern's material aesthetics illuminate how Walpole's Gothic functions as a fundamentally queer form committed to destabilizing dominant enlightenment models of history, futurity, and linear time: models conceptually premised on the heteropatriarchal family’s generational continuity.\n\nEmily West is an assistant professor in the English Department at UH Manoa. Her current research focuses on eighteenth-century science and technology, gender and sexuality, material culture, and childhood, on which she has published in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Brown Bag Biography with Dr. Emily West
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