{"id":377073,"date":"2010-03-01T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T00:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f93\/renowned-novelists-speaks-csun-s-queer-studies-spring-lecture-series-40174\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T00:36:24","slug":"renowned-novelists-speaks-at-csun%c2%92s-queer-studies-spring-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/377073","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Novelists Speaks at CSUN\u0092s Queer Studies Spring Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.01.10 09:41 AM<\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed writer, John Rechy, author if \u0093City of Night,\u0094 will be the featured speaker for the 2nd Annual Queer Studies Spring Lecture Series on Tuesday, March 30, at Cal State University, Northridge<\/p>\n<p> The lecture is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. in the Whitsett Room in Sierra Hall in the west side of campus located at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.<\/p>\n<p> Rechy is the author of 15 books, including the best-selling and widely acclaimed novel, \u0093City of Night.\u0094 He is a pioneer of modern gay literature and a prominent Chicano writer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/english\/index.php\" >English<\/a> professor Martin Pousson, who is teaching Rechy\u0092s work this semester in his course, \u0093Gay Male Writers,\u0094 called Rechy \u0093part poet, part provocateur.<\/p>\n<p> \u0093Rechy writes not just for gay men, but for anyone who\u0092s felt lonely and unloved, anyone lost in the streets of our cities, and anyone who\u0092s heard the high piercing cry of the night,\u0094 said Pousson.<\/p>\n<p> The lecture series, inaugurated last year by transgender studies scholar Susan Stryker, brings prominent scholars and artists in the fields of queer studies to the CSUN campus each spring. The lectures celebrate the university\u0092s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/qs\/\" >Queer Studies program<\/a> and to promote interest, activism and scholarships in queer issues on the CSUN campus.<\/p>\n<p> \u0093The spring lecture series provides an exciting space for our students to engage and dialogue with prominent writers\/scholars doing work in Queer Studies,\u0094 said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csun.edu\/ws\/\" >gender and women\u0092s studies<\/a> professor Sheena Malhotra, coordinator of the CSUN Queer Studies program.<\/p>\n<p> Rechy\u0092s presentation will be preceded by a reception at 4 p.m. All are welcome to attend the reception and to meet John Rechy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/queer-studies\/\" >http:\/\/blogs.csun.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/queer-studies\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.01.10 09:41 AM Acclaimed writer, John Rechy, author if \u0093City of Night,\u0094 will be the featured speaker for the 2nd Annual Queer Studies Spring Lecture Series on Tuesday, March 30, at Cal State University, Northridge The lecture is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. in the Whitsett Room in Sierra Hall in the west side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}