The Wayne State Department of English and Center for Gender and Sexuality co-present a lecture by Karen Tongson, Professor of English and chair of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at USC. Dr. Tongson will present an epilogue to her recent book Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV that Soothes Us titled “The Rest of Us: Normporn TV after the Apocalypse.”

About Dr. Tongson

Karen Tongson is Professor of English, gender & sexuality studies, and American studies & ethnicity, and chair of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies. She is the 2019 recipient of the Lambda Literary Jeanne Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, and the author of  Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV that Soothes Us (2023), Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2019; Lambda Literary Award nominee in LGBTQ Nonfiction; Pitchfork’s Best Music Books of 2019, The Believer Book Award, longlist, 2020), Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). For ten years, she co-edited the award-winning book series, Postmillennial Pop with Henry Jenkins at NYU Press. Currently, she serves as co-editor of the Singles book series at Duke University Press with Summer Kim Lee.