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Chantal Nadeau

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Biography

Chantal Nadeau is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Criticism and Interpretative Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her scholarship centers on ways that sexuality is bound up with the legal, political, and visual (de)formations of the postcolonial. Author of Fur Nation: From The Beaver to Brigitte Bardot (Routledge 2001), her research on cinema, popular culture, and legal queer cultures has appeared in journals such as GLQ, Multitudes, Screen, and Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. Always driven by geographical locations, she co-edited a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies: “Queering the Middle: Sexual Diasporas, Race, and a Queer Midwest” (2014). Her second monograph Queer Courage (forthcoming Fordham University Press, 2024) argues that the language of courage marks the arrival of a new paradigm for LGBTQ subjects, one that signals a legal and political shift from outlawness (pride) to citizenship (courage). Nadeau is at work on two new research projects that explore narratives of bodily integrity and sexual borders in films and visual arts.

 

Research Interests

My scholarship centers on ways that sexuality is bound up with the legal, political, and visual (de)formations of the postcolonial. I also maintain my interests in popular culture, cinema, visual culture, queer discourses, and hybrid forms of non-fiction writing.

Education

1993                PhD, Sociology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1989                MA, Political Science, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

1985                BA, Political Science, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

 

 

Awards and Honors

Residencies:

with Jessie Mott: Leighton Studios Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Project: Like Queer Animals: A Surreal Bestiary, January 2020.

Faculty Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University, School of Law, Chicago, IL, USA, Fall 2015.

 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory

Highlighted Publications

  • 2023      Book. Affamé.e.s. Montréal, Hamac illustré (creative non-fiction & poetry).
  • 2020      Book. Les trouées. Montréal, Hamac. (creative non-fiction & poetry). https://www.hamac.qc.ca/collection-hamac/trouees-les-965.html
  • 2016      “Courage, Post-Immunity Politics, and the Regulation of the Queer Subject.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 505-29.
  • 2015      “Civility, Fraternité, and the Frames of Democracy.” Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, vol. 9, pp. 1-5.
  • 2014      with Martin F. Manalansan IV, Richard T. Rodriguez, and Siobhan B. Somerville. Queering the Middle: Race, Region, and a Queer Midwest. Spec. issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 20, no. 1–2.
  • 2001      Book. Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot. Routledge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Publications

Nadeau, C. (2020). Les trouées. Hamac.

Nadeau, C. (2016). Courage, postimmunity politics, and the regulation of the queer subject. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 23(2), 505-529. https://doi.org/10.2979/indjglolegstu.23.2.0505

Nadeau, C. (2015). Civility, Fraternité, and the Frames of Democracy. Occasion, 9. https://arcade.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/article_pdfs/Occasion_v09_nadeau_final.pdf

Manalansan, M. F. (Guest ed.), Nadeau, C. (Guest ed.), Rodriguez, R. T. (Guest ed.), & Somerville, S. B. (Guest ed.) (2014). Queering the Middle. GLQ, 20(1-2). https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/29396

Manalansan IV, M. F., Nadeau, C., Rodríguez, R. T., & Somerville, S. B. (2014). Queering the Middle: Race, Region, and a Queer Midwest. GLQ, 20(1-2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2370270

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