LGBT Studies Program

Welcome to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies Program.

The LGBT Program currently offers an undergraduate certificate and a minor. The certificate is a 21-credit interdisciplinary course of study comprised of 15 required and 6 elective credits designed to complement any student's major field of study. The minor is a 15-credit interdisciplinary course of study comprised of 12 required and 3 elective credits.

This Spring LGBT Studies Proudly Presents:

CONTACT
Tenth Annual Lecture Series in LGBT Studies

Contact. Of bodies, worlds, orders, organisms. Of people, modes of being, ways of seeing. "Life is at its most rewarding, productive, and pleasant when large numbers of people understand, appreciate, and seek out interclass contact and communication conducted in a mode of good will," declares Samuel R. Delany in Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. Contact is a theme that resonates throughout queer studies of intimacy, alterity, temporality, and globalization. Join us for a provocative series of interdisciplinary conversations as we celebrate ten years of LGBT Studies at Maryland. Make contact with us.

DELANY AT 70:
Honoring the Life & Work of Sameuel R. Delany
Fifth Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium
Friday, April 20, 2012


Sameul R. Delany

The symposium will be a daylong series of conversations in critical queer, race, and gender studies inspired by the multifaceted cultural work of author, literary critic, and professor Samuel R. Delany, whose seventieth birthday is April 1, 2012. Events will include paper sessions featuring faculty and graduate students, as well as an afternoon panel of invited faculty presenting their work on Delany. The day will culminate in Mr. Delany reading from his new novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, and engaging in conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr, Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.


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Announcements

Still have room in your Spring 2012 schedule?
There are still available seats in:

  • LGBT 298L Intro. to Queer Latina/o Studies
  • LGBT 298D Digital Queers
  • LGBT 298C Histories of "Deviant" Women

A full list of Spring courses, and course descriptions are available.

We hope to see you at our upcoming events for this year's 10th annual lecture series in LGBT Studies. Publicity is still being finalized, but see the program-in-process!

SAVE THE DATE - 5th Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium, "DELANY AT 70" will be held on Friday, April 20, 2012. Additional details to follow!

See the Call for Papers for "Delany_at_70." Proposals should be submitted by Feb. 6.

For the Spring 2012 semester, the LGBT Studies Program office will be staffed Mon. and Wed. from 10am-3pm; Tues. 11am-6pm; and Thurs. 9am-11am and 12:30pm-6pm. We look forward to talking with you about advising for the certificate or minor, enrolling in courses, or other concerns. So, come visit us in 2417 Marie Mount Hall, call us at 301.405.LGBT or e-mail us.

See News and Announcements for more events.

For other current events on campus check with the LGBT Equity Center, the The One Project, the Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy office, the Pride Alliance.