Biography
Chantal Nadeau is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Criticism and Interpretative Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her scholarship centers on ways that sexuality is bound up with the legal, political, and visual (de)formations of the postcolonial. Author of Fur Nation: From The Beaver to Brigitte Bardot (Routledge 2001), her research on cinema, popular culture, and legal queer cultures has appeared in journals such as GLQ, Multitudes, Screen, and Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. Always driven by geographical locations, she co-edited a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies: “Queering the Middle: Sexual Diasporas, Race, and a Queer Midwest” (2014). Her second monograph Queer Courage (forthcoming Fordham University Press, 2024) argues that the language of courage marks the arrival of a new paradigm for LGBTQ subjects, one that signals a legal and political shift from outlawness (pride) to citizenship (courage). Nadeau is at work on two new research projects that explore narratives of bodily integrity and sexual borders in films and visual arts.
Research Interests
My scholarship centers on ways that sexuality is bound up with the legal, political, and visual (de)formations of the postcolonial. I also maintain my interests in popular culture, cinema, visual culture, queer discourses, and hybrid forms of non-fiction writing.
Education
1993 PhD, Sociology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1989 MA, Political Science, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
1985 BA, Political Science, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Awards and Honors
Residencies:
with Jessie Mott: Leighton Studios Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Project: Like Queer Animals: A Surreal Bestiary, January 2020.
Faculty Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation, Northwestern University, School of Law, Chicago, IL, USA, Fall 2015.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory
Highlighted Publications
- 2023 Book. Affamé.e.s. Montréal, Hamac illustré (creative non-fiction & poetry).
- 2020 Book. Les trouées. Montréal, Hamac. (creative non-fiction & poetry). https://www.hamac.qc.ca/collection-hamac/trouees-les-965.html
- 2016 “Courage, Post-Immunity Politics, and the Regulation of the Queer Subject.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 505-29.
- 2015 “Civility, Fraternité, and the Frames of Democracy.” Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, vol. 9, pp. 1-5.
- 2014 with Martin F. Manalansan IV, Richard T. Rodriguez, and Siobhan B. Somerville. Queering the Middle: Race, Region, and a Queer Midwest. Spec. issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 20, no. 1–2.
- 2001 Book. Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot. Routledge.
Recent Publications
Nadeau, C. (2020). Les trouées. Hamac.
Nadeau, C. (2016). Courage, postimmunity politics, and the regulation of the queer subject. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 23(2), 505-529. https://doi.org/10.2979/indjglolegstu.23.2.0505
Nadeau, C. (2015). Civility, Fraternité, and the Frames of Democracy. Occasion, 9. https://arcade.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/article_pdfs/Occasion_v09_nadeau_final.pdf
Manalansan, M. F. (Guest ed.), Nadeau, C. (Guest ed.), Rodriguez, R. T. (Guest ed.), & Somerville, S. B. (Guest ed.) (2014). Queering the Middle. GLQ, 20(1-2). https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/29396
Manalansan IV, M. F., Nadeau, C., Rodríguez, R. T., & Somerville, S. B. (2014). Queering the Middle: Race, Region, and a Queer Midwest. GLQ, 20(1-2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2370270