Cultures of the Future Lectures is one of CETAPS’ latest initiatives which aims to provide innovative tools and methods by inviting prominent scholars from all over the world to reflect on relevant topics to our fields of research.

For our first lecture, we are honoured to introduce Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and English at Pennsylvania State University. Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor has published two monographs, Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013; and edited two essay collections, including The Scandal of Susan Sontag (Columbia University Press, 2009).

She is the author of dozens of book chapters and articles in Utopian Studies, Feminist Studies and Contemporary Women’s Writing and a former president of The Society for Utopian Studies (SUS). Her current work looks at the cultural significance of plastic and plastic waste, and its impacts on environmental crisis.

CETAPS is proud to present Part 1 of the lecture on The Force of Gender: Queer Reckonings in Post-War American Utopian Literature.

CETAPS+ Cultures of The Future is proud to present Part 2 of the lecture on The Force of Gender: The Afterlife of The Handmaid’s Tale: “Payback”, by Professor Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor.

Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and English at Pennsylvania State University. Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor has published two monographs, Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013; and edited two essay collections, including The Scandal of Susan Sontag (Columbia University Press, 2009).

She is the author of dozens of book chapters and articles in Utopian Studies, Feminist Studies and Contemporary Women’s Writing and a former president of The Society for Utopian Studies (SUS). Her current work looks at the cultural significance of plastic and plastic waste, and its impacts on environmental crisis.