The following is an email from Craig Womack
(Posted 4-7-02)

Hello, my name is Craig Womack, and I am a new professor in the English Department at OU. Beginning this fall, we are offering a course on Gay and Lesbian Literature that I want the OU campus group and the Oklahoma Gayly to know about, in hopes that I might make the course known to as many gay and lesbian students and community members as possible. The course will be a survey of major gay and lesbian writers of this century, as well as lesser known writers. Some of the works we will consider will include Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle, Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, E.M. Forster's Maurice, Alan Sinfeld's Out on Stage, and James Earl Hardy's B-Boy Blues. We will also study the theoretical contexts that inform gay and lesbian literature, the gender debates, and the differences between gay and lesbian, as opposed to queer studies, approaches. It should be a fun course that maximizes discussion and student participation.

The course is English 3023.002 Gay and Lesbian Literature. It is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00-1:15pm in Dale Hall Tower 104. I am a new professor of Native American literature in the department. I am Muskogee Creek and Cherokee, and have a long family history in Oklahoma. I am the author of Red on Red, a literary history of the Muskogee Creek Nation (which also has gay content in that one chapter takes up the gay Cherokee playwrite Lynn Riggs), and Drowning in Fire, a novel about growing up gay and Indian in Oklahoma.

If you have any questions, email me (womacs@uleth.ca) or call me at 403-327-6195.

thanks,
Craig Womack