Speaker: Nicholas de Villiers, Associate Professor of English and Film, University of North Florida, USA

Moderator: TSENG Hsun Hui, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK

Language: English

Free Registration: https://goo.gl/4aG8BV

Abstract: Dr. Nicholas de Villiers discusses his recently published book, Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), examining a transnational selection of documentaries about sex work. His talk addresses the ethical questions raised by ethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects. He provides an overview of the complementary approaches of Foucauldian critique of confessional discourse, critical ethnography of sex work (and sex worker rights activism), and theories of reflexive documentary.

Speaker Bio: Nicholas de Villiers is associate professor of English and Film at the University of North Florida, USA. He is also currently a visiting scholar at Taiwan National Central University's Center for the Study of Sexualities. He is the author of Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol (Minnesota, 2012) and Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary (Minnesota, 2017). He has published journal articles in Paragraph, Symploke, Jump Cut, and positions: asia critique, and serves on the editorial board of Screen Bodies