

The Department of English Language & Literatures and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice are pleased to invite you to “Academic Freedom, Sex, and the Politics of Hate,” a talk by Dr. Rana M. Jaleel (she/they), Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis.
This highly anticipated in-person event is part of the GRSJ Noted Scholars Speakers Series. It is also the 2024 English Language & Literatures Garnett Sedgewick Lecture.
Be sure to register using the link below to join us on January 22, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT in Buchanan Tower 323.
We look forward to sharing space with you.
Garnett Sedgewick was a professor in the Department of English at UBC from 1918 to 1948. Professor Sedgewick specialized in Shakespeare and Chaucer. In 1920, he became the first Head of the English Department.
About the Talk
Academic Freedom, Sex, and the Politics of Hate
This talk explores the sexual and racial politics that spur institutional recognition of “hate” on our campuses and considers that recognition’s effects on academic freedom and the notion of shared governance.
About the Speaker
Rana M. Jaleel (she/they) is an Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University, a JD from the Yale Law School, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2013 –2015, Dr. Jaleel was the Center for Reproductive Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School. At UC Davis, Dr. Jaleel is a 2022-2025 Chancellor’s Fellow and a 2021-2024 College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Faculty Fellow. Dr. Jaleel runs the Creative Methodologies Cluster, a mixed genre writing workshop modeled on the creative intelligences, traditions, and activisms of women/queer/trans of color and transnational feminisms.
Dr. Jaleel’s work examines the politics of evidence: how concepts like labor, sex/gender, race, reproduction, and property are sustained or transformed through the recognition, narration, and redress of harm. Her first book, The Work of Rape received a 2021 Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award and was co-winner of the 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association.
Dr. Jaleel’s academic work has been published in places like South Atlantic Quarterly, Amerasia, The Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Cultural Studies, Social Text: Periscope, and The Brooklyn Law Review. Dr. Jaleel is part of the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal’s Editorial Collective. A longtime member of the American Association of University Professors, she presently chairs Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.