Smalley Graduate Fellowship Lecture: Robin Sudanan Turner
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Each year, the graduate student awarded the Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship delivers a public lecture based on their dissertation. Robin Sudanan Turner will deliver this year's lecture. All are welcome, reception to follow the talk.
"Stigmatized Trailblazers to Celebrated Deviants: Discourses of (Homo)sexuality in the Montréal Press after the Québec Quiet Revolution, 1969-1977"
My project investigates changes in news media discourses that framed (homo)sexuality after the Québec Quiet Revolution (1960-1966). I analyze how language choices signified transformations in cultural attitudes, language ideologies, identity politics, and community values. Drawing on examples from French and English news items that linked sexual liberation and Québec sovereignty, this talk explores what this implied for overarching social debates around language, religion, and Québec politics.
Robin Sudanan Turner is a PhD candidate in French Linguistics, with graduate minors in Queer Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and European Union Studies.