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Ivan Bujan

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Education: BA, 2010, University of Rijeka (Croatia); MA, 2012, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary); MA, 2014, New York University; PhD, 2021, Northwestern University. Book Chapters: “Undesiring Whiteness and Undoing the White Gaze in HIV Prevention Marketing,” in Sexual Racism & Social Justice (2024, Oxford University Press), “Blue Is, Blue Does: A Performance about Truvada in Several Interactions,” in Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First Century (2018, Palgrave Macmillan). Articles: “A Case of Chronic Survivance: Decolonizing the Epidemiology of HIV.” Sexualities. (2024): 1-27, ““Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness:” The Question of Race and National Belonging in Safer Sex Education.” Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture. 13(2020): 37–74.

Personal Statement

Ivan Bujan works at the intersections of performance studies, health humanities, and queer of color critique. His research examines health disparities and envisions equitable health practices for communities facing systemic barriers. He addresses the lack of tailored resources for racialized sexualities and analyzes culturally sensitive and creative interventions, aiming to promote social justice.

Courses

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Description

This seminar interrogates the concept of pleasure. Pleasure occupies a fraught space in feminist and queer theory. This course examines several ways that people have theorized pleasure as a space for politics, a space for conservatism, or a way to think about racialized difference. This course is not interested in defining what pleasure is, but it interrogates what the stakes of talking about pleasure have been within contemporary theory and culture. Beginning with an examination of pleasure in the context of early twentieth century sexology, this course looks at the sex wars of the 1970s, the turn toward pleasure as a space of protest, and ends by thinking of ways to imagine pleasure outside of current paradigms of sexuality. The course takes gender, race, and sexuality as central analytic components.

Class Number

2035

Credits

3

Description

Topics courses in gender and sexuality studies are used to provide a broad interdisciplinary introduction to and more thematically-specific knowledge of historical and contemporary topics in gender and sexuality studies.

While course texts will vary depending on the instructor and topic, texts may include books, articles, book chapters, films, audio recordings and other materials used to provide insight into gender and sexuality studies.

Assignments will vary depending on the instructor and topic, assignments may include quizzes, exams, standard academic papers, research papers, group projects, and other activities enhancing knowledge and understanding of gender and sexuality studies.

Class Number

2375

Credits

3