Being Private in Public : Claudia Rankine and John Lucas’s “Situation” Videos

Abstract

The talk was part of the faculty words Words & Process Workshop, organized by Minou Arjomand, David Kornhaber, Gretchen Murphy and Hannah C. Wojciehowski. Chad Bennett, an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, gave a fascinating presentation on John Lucas and Claudia Rankine’s “Situation” videos as part of a series of workshops organized by the English department faculty. Bennett has published numerous articles on the intersections of poetry and queer theory, an...