Academic and Creative Writing in Gender Studies: Epistemologies, Methodologies, Writing Practices. Poland

Course description:
The course will put focus on multiple links between writing practices, epistemologies and methodologies, and in particular provide a forum for reflection and discussion of the ways in which such links can be seen as crucial for development of feminist theorizing and Gender Studies.

Experiments with writing styles, genres and practices abound in the landscape of feminist theorizing. Well known, though very different examples are the texts of Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous and Donna Haraway, who, writing in boundary spaces between theory and literature, effectively have deconstructed traditional borders between academic and creative writing. That it is important for feminist theorizing to transgress such borders have been discussed in several ways. The question has been raised on epistemological, methodological as well as didactic grounds. The course will provide an overview of some of these discussions and their genealogies in feminist theorizing, as well as encourage participants to reflect on their own writing practices in the context of presentations of the framework of their doctoral research.

The course will include three kinds of sessions:
1) lecture-discussion-sessions,
2) writing workshops,
3) group sessions with presentations of students' papers, where students will be given the opportunity to present their doctoral research, reflect on their writing practices and receive comments from teachers and co-participants.

Teachers:
Prof. Elzbieta Oleksy, Poland
Dr. Kathy Davis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Prof. Sissel Lie, Norway
Prof. Nina Lykke, Sweden