Writer, Photographer and Activist Anne McClintock to Give Annual Troy Lecture April 14

Writer, photographer and activist Anne McClintock, the A Barton Hepburn Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University, will give the annual Troy Lecture presented by the English department on Thursday, April 14, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. via Zoom. Preregistration is required.  

McClintock’s presentation, “Monster. A Fugue in Fire and Ice,” will be told through creative fiction and her own photographs, with which she will follow the multiple spaces of monstrosity from the depths and surface of the Gulf of Mexico to the Northern ice worlds of Greenland, while engaging three of the great crises of our time – climate catastrophe (especially melting ice and rising oceans), global militarization and mass displacement. She will explore the question of how we can make scientific data and the planetary upheavals of the Anthropocene more publicly visible and tangible to facilitate creative strategies for change. 

McClintock’s interdisciplinary and transnational work, both scholarly and creative, explores the intersections among race, gender and sexualities; imperialist and globalization, including indigenous studies; visual culture and mass media; sexual and gender violence; and militarization, climate chaos and animal studies. 

She has written more than 100 articles, essays and reviews for scholarly and mainstream publications, which, along with her photographs, have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Village Voice, E-Flux Magazine, Jacobin and South Atlantic Quarterly, among others. 

McClintock is the recipient of two MacArthur fellowships, a human rights fellowship and Woodrow Wilson Fellowship from Columbia University, and artist residency fellowships at Blue Mountain Center for the Arts, Yaddo and Dorland, among others. 

The Troy Lectures on the Humanities and Public Life are presented in honor of the late Frederick S. (Barney) Troy, Emeritus Professor of English, honorary professor of the university and former trustee. It is free and open to the public with pre-registration.