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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Doyle, Jennifer

Associate Professor of English
Graduate Advisor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

English


Biography

Jennifer Doyle teaches American literature, gender studies, and visual studies. Her book, “Sex Objects”: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (Minnesota, 2006), examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. In chapters on the "boring parts" of Moby- Dick, the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of women in Andy Warhol's Factory films, "bad sex" and Tracey Emin's crudely evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal Davis's pornographic parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances, Sex Objects challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and instead investigates what such works can tell us about the nature of desire. She is co-editor of a special issue of the feminist journal “Signs” (Spring 2006) on new feminist theories of visual culture, and is co-editor of “Pop Out”: Queer Warhol (Duke, 1996), the first book of its kind of consider the relationship between Warhol's sexuality and his work. Her article, "Jo March's Love Poems," on lesbian desire and reading in Little Women was recently published in a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature (June 2006). She is currently at work on two book projects. “Critical Tears” considers the role of emotion in contemporary art overtly about social and political violence. “Between Friends” offers a feminist reading of the participation of women in gay avant-garde cinema of the 1960s. Jennifer Doyle is on sabbatical for Fall 2006.

Degrees

Ph.D. Graduate Program in Literature 1999

Duke University

B.A. Comparative Literature 1990

Rutgers University

Research Area

American Literature, Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Critical Theory

Publications

BOOKS
Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire. The University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

EDITED BOOKS & JOURNALS
Co-editor (with Amelia Jones) of New Feminist Theories of Visual Culture, a special issue of Signs. Spring 2006.
Co-editor (with Jonathan Flatley and José Muñoz) of Pop Out: Queer Warhol. Duke University Press, 1996.

JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Jo March's Love Poems" in Nineteenth Century Literature (December 2005)
"Sex, Scandal, and Thomas Eakins's The Gross Clinic" in Representations (Fall 1999)

OTHER ARTICLES
"Queer Wallpaper" in Amelia Jones ed., The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945. Blackwell, 2006.

"Critical Tears" in Nicholas Baume, ed., Getting Emotional. Boston Institute for Contemporary Art, 2005.

"A Thin Line" in Giancarlo Ambrosino et al eds., David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side. Semiotext(e)/MIT, 2006.