The Centre provides an exciting research environment for faculty and postgraduate students interested in queer studies. Building on the pioneering work begun by Professors Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore at Sussex in the 1980s and 1990s, the Centre produces innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the study of sexual dissidence that is internationally recognised. Our overall goals are the exchange of ideas and the deepening of research in all areas of sexual dissidence study. The Centre attracts postgraduate students of high calibre from all parts of the United Kingdom and from around the globe, and their work contributes to the Centre's intellectual culture. Centre faculty bring a broad range of interdisciplinary expertise and scholarly perspectives to bear on the study of sexual dissidence - these include literary studies, postcolonial queer studies, creative writing, performance studies, psychoanalysis, social and cultural history, feminist and gender studies, cultural studies, film, visual culture, digital cultures, and media studies.
Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence
