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• Short-listed for Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies 2020

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Reading Sideways teaches us how to read dialogues between art objects and artistic fields in ways that remind us of why the humanities matter: because the friction between artistic media and our encounters with art estranges what we think we know about ourselves and our attachments. Radiantly written, it is itself both a powerful theory of aesthetics and an aesthetic object worth our deep engagement. -- Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis

Thinking sideways with Dana Seitler is immensely satisfying. Her creative spread of historical contexts exquisitely matches her layered readings, making bent forms of gendered sexuality newly thinkable. Deep intellectual pleasure results from how art matters for politics here. I savored this ride at every turn. -- Kathryn Bond Stockton, The University of Utah Reading Sideways teaches us how to read dialogues between art objects and artistic fields in ways that remind us of why the humanities matter: because the friction between artistic media and our encounters with art estranges what we think we know about ourselves and our attachments. Radiantly written, it is itself both a powerful theory of aesthetics and an aesthetic object worth our deep engagement. -- Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis

Thinking Sideways with Dana Seitler is immensely satisfying. Her creative spread of historical contexts exquisitely matches her layered readings, making bent forms of gendered sexuality newly thinkable. Deep intellectual pleasure results from how art matters for politics here. I savored this ride at every turn. -- Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century Reading Sideways teaches us how to read dialogues between art objects and artistic fields in ways that remind us of why the humanities matter: because the friction between artistic media and our encounters with art estranges what we think we know about ourselves and our attachments. Radiantly written, it is itself both a powerful theory of aesthetics and an aesthetic object worth our deep engagement. -- Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis

Reading Sideways teaches us how to read dialogues between art objects and artistic fields in ways that remind us of why the humanities matter: because the friction between artistic media and our encounters with art estranges what we think we know about ourselves and our attachments. Radiantly written, it is itself both a powerful theory of aesthetics and an aesthetic object worth our deep engagement.---Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis Thinking sideways with Dana Seitler is immensely satisfying. Her creative spread of historical contexts exquisitely matches her layered readings, making bent forms of gendered sexuality newly thinkable. Deep intellectual pleasure results from how art matters for politics here. I savored this ride at every turn.---Kathryn Bond Stockton, The University of Utah

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Dana Seitler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Atavistic Tendencies: The Culture of Science in Modern America.

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