LIT 3524 Spring 2025 - Wimberg

What makes a text a “LGBTQ play?” This course aims to develop an answer through the exploration of plays within the genre, from early modern England to the present day American south. With an eye to the interplay between LGBTQ plays and history, we will pick apart the ways plays with LGBTQ themes interact with the “atmospheres” they land in: theirs, ours, and the atmospheres in between. We will also study relevant LGBTQ history, theory, and criticism to develop our understandings where the genre has been and where it is headed.
This course fulfills the diversity and genre requirements.