Heather Love現任美國賓州大學英語系副教授，刻正於史丹佛人文學中心研究，研究及教學領域包括十九至二十世紀之交的英美文學、酷兒理論與性別研究， 女性主義理論，現代主義與現代性，精神分析與情感研究，社會學與文學，種族與族群，批判性的殘障研究，電影與視覺文化，批判理論等。
Heather Love 教授2007年在哈佛大學出版的重要著作Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History， 針對目前美國酷兒文化政治日益走向貌似光明燦爛、而遺忘或拋卻或必須納入積極面的黑暗過去，以及酷兒研究及運動面對「未來」的兩難性必要，提出重新「回 頭」看負面情感如羞辱、孤單等「黑暗面」的重要。該書探索了幾個十九世紀末到二十世紀初的文學文本，以刻意不忘記酷兒現代性憂鬱的姿態，對於酷兒研究文 學、歷史乃至於當前運動倫理，提出具有轉捩意義的思考，被譽為「酷兒研究的新浪潮」。
Heather Love目前正從事的新研究 “The Stigma Archive” 則不止聚焦於社會性相排斥，而將視野擴及於勾連種族、性別、殘障、階級與其他各種範疇的「污名」，將酷兒研究建立於社會邊緣性的大範疇上，此一新的視野的 提出，必然連帶及於個案研究、比較研究、文學、歷史與社會學等方法論層次的重新深入反思，對於酷兒研究及運動的未來都具有啟發性的洞見。
Heather Love教授已有部份作品中譯出版：〈壞毀的身分認同：史帝芬．高登的孤寂與酷兒歷史的艱難〉及〈拒絕的政治〉二文收錄於《憂鬱的文化政治》（台北：蜃樓，2010）。關於本次國際論壇亦可參考下列Heather Love教授已發表的相關著作：
．“Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn.” New Literary History (Fall 2010), 41(2). “New Sociologies of Literature,” eds. James English and Rita Felski. Forthcoming.
．“Gyn/Apology: Sarah Orne Jewett’s Spinster Aesthetic.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (Winter 2009), 55(3-4), 305-334. “Come Again? New Approaches to Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature,” eds. Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Looby.
． “ Compulsory Happiness and Queer Existence.” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics (Summer 2006), 63, 52-64.“Happiness,” ed. Sara Ahmed.
． “Living (and Dying) in the Other.” Grey Room 24/Documenta 12, 16-25. “The Status of the Subject.”
． “Spectacular Failure: The Figure of the Lesbian in Mulholland Drive.” New Literary History (Winter 2004), 35(1), 117-132. “Rethinking Tragedy.” Reprint in Rita Felski (Ed.). (2008). Rethinking Tragedy. Johns Hopkins University Press.
．“Wedding Crashers.” Review essay. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Winter 2007), 13(1), 125-139.
系列演講座談
I. 12/16日週四上午10:10-13:00 新竹清華大學人社院A202演講廳
"On the Politics of Emotion: Feeling Backward, Feeling Bad"
「背」的情感政治
主持人：白瑞梅（中央大學英美文學系教授）
與談人：洪凌（作家，國立中興大學人文與社會科學研究中心博士後研究員）
鄭聖勳（清華大學中文系博士候選人）
謝莉莉（中央大學英美文學系助理教授）
This paper surveys the intersections between gender and sexuality studies and affect studies in recent scholarship. I discuss the significance of emotion in queer political reflection, and suggest that the focus on emotion, experience, and corporeality in this work can be understood as a queering of politics. I take up the recent debates in queer theory about the relative value of positive and negative emotion in analyses of queer existence, staged for instance in an exchange in the journal _PMLA_ on "The Anti-social Thesis in Queer Studies" and in recent books on queer optimism. I argue for the value of negative feeling in queer politics, suggesting that in an era of pride, gay marriage, and the commodification of gay life, bad feelings like shame, regret, and loneliness have both strategic value and historical significance.
II. 12/19日週日下午1:30-4:30 台北台灣師範大學綜合大樓509國際會議廳
"Backwardness and the Future of Queer Politics"
倒退與酷兒政治的未來
主持人：丁乃非（中央大學英美文學系教授）
劉人鵬（清華大學中文系教授）
與談人：王蘋（性別人權協會秘書長）
黃道明（中央大學英美文學系助理教授）
In this talk I will address the significance of negative affect in rethinking the form of contemporary politics. Drawing on my work in my book _Feeling Backward_, I will consider the ways that minor and bad affects -- depression, despair, shame, and longing -- might serve a role in the articulation of alternate forms of community and renewed visions of sociality. I argue that political organizing has tended to favor an extremely limited range of emotion -- primarily hope and anger -- and that we need find ways to mobilize the less heroic and more troubling feelings that underwrite contemporary life. I will address some conceptual attempts to think about the public role of emotion in recent years, and will talk through some examples of activist efforts that draw on negative feeling.
III. 12/21日週二上午10:00-13:00 桃園中央大學文學院一館 A304
"The Case for Comparison: Stigma Between Disability and Sexuality"
污名的比較：殘障與性
主持人：甯應斌（中央大學哲學所教授）
與談人：陳柏偉（黑手那卡西工人樂隊團長，輔仁大學心理學系諮商與諮詢心理學組博士班）
喀飛（台灣同志諮詢熱線協會常務理事）
游靜（香港嶺南大學文化研究系副教授）
Recent activism and theory in the fields of disability and queer studies has focused on the concept of stigma, drawn from a sociological tradition (and particularly from the field of deviance studies). These fields have used the concept of stigma--meaning a discrediting of the subject in public--to draw attention to the social exclusion as well as shame and alienation that sexual outsiders and disabled people experience. The radical wing of each of these fields--queer studies and crip studies--have incorporated the concept of stigma into their self-understanding, choosing names that recall histories of injury. In this talk, I take up the question of comparison across different identity groups. Drawing on my recent research on the Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman (and his 1963 book, _Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity_), I ask whether an abstract category like stigma can capture the significant differences of history, experience, and embodiment across social groups. While recent work in queer studies, disability studies, critical race studies, and cultural studies more generally has tended to focus on the local and the specific--offering critiques, for instance, of the "limits of analogy" and of "like race" arguments--I argue that comparison is an indispensable concept for thinking about social exclusion and a valuable resource for coalitional politics.
國際論壇網頁：http://www.hss.nthu.edu.tw/~apcs/app/news.php?Sn=133
網路報名網址：http://apcs.nctu.edu.tw/page1.aspx?step=1&no=254545
開放報名時間：12/1(三)至12/9(四)
聯絡方式
清華大學亞太／文化研究室陳小姐（校內分機：34329、專線：03-5724876、E-mail：apcs@my.nthu.edu.tw）
主辦單位：台聯大文化研究跨校學程、清華大學亞太／文化研究室、中央大學性／別研究室、文化研究學會、交通大學亞太／文化研究室
贊助單位：行政院國家科學委員會
