Co-sponsored by the European Studies and Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies.
This talk explores the anti-fascistic potential of curiosity, taking avant-garde artist Claude Cahun as a case study. In 1930, Cahun and their partner Marcel Moore published Cancelled Confessions. Hannah Freed-Thall will discuss how Cahun and Moore’s fierce defiance still speaks to us today.
Hannah Freed-Thall is Professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture at NYU, and a specialist of comparative modernisms, environmental humanities, and gender/ sexuality studies. She is the author of Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism (Oxford UP, 2015), which was awarded the Scaglione Prize for French & Francophone Studies and the Modernist Studies Association Prize for a First Book, and Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons (Columbia UP, 2023), which received the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize.
