Heather Love Receives 2024 David R. Kessler Award

Heather Love

Professor of English Heather Love received the 2024 David R. Kessler Award from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York. The honor goes to a scholar who has produced a “substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of LGBTQ Studies.”
 
“Love’s engagements with comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, and reading methods in literary studies, as well as her current work on the queer real, exemplify a range and depth of scholarship that CLAGS is proud to honor,” the committee wrote.
 
Love is the 32nd recipient of the award, and she gave a lecture called “Intimacy and Infrastructure.” David Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor in English, was honored in 2021, and he gave a talk called “(Gay) Panic Attack.”

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