Arkansas public university offers course in ‘queer childhoods’ taught by fairy tale scholar

A nationalist assemblage successful the heavy reddish authorities of Arkansas offers an interdisciplinary penning people successful its English section called "Queer Childhoods," according to the school's people directory.

The people focuses connected "evaluating world arguments and connected penning papers that marque an statement and that utilize scholarly sources," says a vague statement of the offering connected the University of Central Arkansas' website. "The people is thematic, with instructors choosing topics and choosing an interdisciplinary acceptable of readings focused connected that topic."

The statement does not notation immoderate specifics astir the curriculum, and a syllabus is unavailable.

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Christine Case, a visiting adjunct prof of English, is listed arsenic the people instructor. Her module illustration leafage says she specializes successful children's and young big literature. She earned her Ph.D. successful captious and taste studies from the University of Pittsburgh successful 2023.

Her dissertation was titled "Composite Bodies: Race, Gender, and Dis/ability successful Fairy Tale Performance."

"This dissertation interrogates the ways successful which racial, gendered, dis/abled, and technological modes of embodiment reimagine what fairy communicative performances tin signify and who they tin include," the dissertation begins. "Through a model of composite bodies, I illustration divers representational possibilities made imaginable by the quality and show of definite bodies successful fairytale landscapes, from the crip Disney Park Guest to the Black incarnation of the achromatic Disney Princess.

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Case said the dissertation was inspired by "queer of colour critique and modern girlhood studies," and that the probe "centers interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to performance, race, gender, and fashionable culture, peculiarly successful US contexts."

The University of Central Arkansas told Fox News Digital that it had audited much than 3,000 existent courses successful bid to find whether they tally afoul of the state's recently-enacted Arkansas Curriculum Content and Educational Standards for Schools (ACCESS) law.

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Certain parts of the instrumentality prohibition DEI and captious contention mentation ideology. 

As a result, the schoolhouse volition nary longer connection the course, according to a spokesperson. 

"UCA has received nary pupil complaints oregon concerns regarding this course," the spokesperson said. "The assemblage remains committed to maintaining world rigor, transparency and compliance portion continuing to supply students with a wide broad arts acquisition that develops writing, probe and analytical skills indispensable for occurrence successful immoderate field."