{"id":217,"date":"2022-02-05T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/?p=217"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:22:05","slug":"brandy-wilson-to-give-humanities-teacher-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/news\/brandy-wilson-to-give-humanities-teacher-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandy Wilson to Give Humanities Teacher Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/12\/Wilson21b.jpeg\" alt=\"Brandy Wilson\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/12\/Wilson21b.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/12\/Wilson21b-265x300.jpeg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS, Miss.&#8211; Dr. Brandy Wilson has been named the 2022 Humanities Teacher and will present a public lecture titled \u201cPerfectly Queer: Redefining the Archetype\u201d Friday, Feb. 25 at 12 p.m. on the campus of Mississippi University for Women in Cochran Hall\u2019s Limbert Assembly Room. The lecture is open to the public, though attendance is limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson will discuss queer characters and characterization in literature from a scholarly and craft perspective, emphasizing the necessity for fully humanized queer characters for both acceptance and representation. She will explore various works of literature as well as read from her own work in progress. According to Wilson, for decades surrounding the 1950s, queer characters were portrayed as sick, murderous, alcoholic, and dangerous&#8211;and those were the most sympathetic characters. Since the Stonewall Uprising, audiences have demanded more for queer characters, but has there been an over-correction, resulting in more admirable but equally flat, \u201cperfectly queer,\u201d characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year the Mississippi Humanities Council grants Humanities Teacher Awards to one faculty member from each state institution, including four-year universities and community colleges. Wilson was chosen through nominations and votes by other humanities faculty members at The W, and will be recognized at the Humanities Council\u2019s Public Humanities Awards ceremony at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:llpdept@muw.edu\">llpdept@muw.edu<\/a> or visit the Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy\u2019s Facebook group to watch the live stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Miss.&#8211; Dr. Brandy Wilson has been named the 2022 Humanities Teacher and will present a public lecture titled \u201cPerfectly Queer: Redefining the Archetype\u201d Friday, Feb. 25 at 12 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}