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Kent Brintnall (B.A., Fort Hays State
University; J.D., Northeastern University School of Law; M.A., Pacific
School of Religion; Ph.D., Emory University) joined the UNC
Charlotte faculty after serving as the inaugural post-doctoral fellow in
religion and sexuality as well as a lecturer in film studies at Emory
University. He teaches courses in feminist and queer theory, visual
and popular culture, masculinity studies and the Christian tradition. His
current book project, Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as
Redemptive Figure, is under contract with University of Chicago
Press. In his free time, Kent watches an embarrassingly large
quantity of reality television and strives to keep his Australian Shepherd, Fenris,
and his Rhodesian Ridgeback, Fred, happy.
Contact
Department of
Religious Studies
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
704.687.3736 (office)
704.687.3002 (fax)
kbrintna@uncc.edu
Office hours: Tues., 1:00-2:30, Macy 202A
Courses for Fall 2009
RELS 3050 Religion & Sexuality
RELS 4101 Queer Theory
Courses for Spring 2009
LBST 2101 Race, Gender and
Sexuality in the American Horror Film
RELS 4050 Sacrifice and the
Political
Courses for Fall 2008
RELS 2600
Approaches to the Study of Religion
RELS 3050 Jesus on the Silver Screen
Research and Teaching Interests
My research
focuses on how Christian narratives, images and rituals generate,
perpetuate and disrupt subjectivity and desire, especially as they
interact with contemporary cultural artifacts and discourses.
Specifically, I am interested in how gendered and sexual identities are
crafted by, through and resistance to Christianity. In pursuing this question, I
rely primarily on insights gained from the work of Georges Bataille,
queer theory, psychoanalysis and film studies. The book project I
just finished considers constructions of masculine
subjectivity and the evocation of homoerotic desire in relation to
images of the male-body-in-pain, including psychoanalytic discourses, images of the crucifixion,
paintings by Francis Bacon, photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and films
from the Hollywood action genre. My next project will attend to a
select body of literary pornographic texts (e.g., the Marquis de Sade,
Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Kathy Acker and Dennis Cooper) read alongside Christian
medieval texts through the work of Roland Barthes. In this
project, I hope, through comparative close readings, to show the shared
features of style, metaphor, rhetoric and language in these texts
produce a similar effect in the reading subject. In other words,
the line between "pornographic" and "theological" texts is thin to
non-existent. In addition, I am co-editing an anthology on the
relevance of the work of Georges Bataille for the academic study of
religion.
Curriculum Vitae
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