Join us for a book talk with the highly popular and Seattle favorite cultural critic Jack Halberstam who will speak about his most recent work, “Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire.” Halberstam will be joined by UW faculty Maria Elena Garcia, Radhika Govindrajan, and Chandan Reddy in a discussion about wildness, zombies, pets, settler colonialism, trans* politics, unruliness, and so much more.

Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including Halberstam’s Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy.

María Elena García teaches in the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington. She is the author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru (University of California Press, 2021).

Radhika Govindrajan is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She is the author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas.

Chandan Reddy is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington. He is the author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality and the U.S. State.

For more information, please contact Chandan Reddy, ccreddy@uw.edu