Episode 3 - Dr Xine Yao on Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze

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Professor Philip Schofield discusses queer aesthetics and the idea of a racialised panoptic gaze with Dr Xine Yao, the co-director of qUCL and an expert on American literature in the Department of English. They dig into the archive of bestselling, but now forgotten, American novels, and tease out the ways in which the biggest issues of the 19th century still resonate in everyday life today. Host: Professor Philip Schofield (Director of the Bentham Project, UCL) Guest: Dr Xine Yao (Department of English, UCL) Commissioners: Professor David Docherty OBE & Dr Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost LCCOS: Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science, UCL) Director: Justin Hardy (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media, UCL) Producer: Stevie Doran Date: 28 October 2024 Duration: 32:27

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