The Greatest Good, Episode 3: Dr Xine Yao – Queer Aesthetics and the Panoptic Gaze

Professor Philip Schofield discusses queer aesthetics and the idea of a racialised panoptic gaze with Dr Xine Yao, co-director of qUCL (UCL’s Queer Studies network) and an expert on American literature in the Department of English. They dig into the archive of bestselling, but now forgotten, American novels, and tease out the ways in which the biggest issues of the 19^th century still resonate in everyday life today.

Dr Xine Yao is Associate Professor in American literature to 1900 in UCL’s Department of English, and the co-director of qUCL, UCL’s Queer Studies network.

• View transcript for Episode 3
• Suggested open access reading
  • Bentham and the Arts
  • Journal of Bentham Studies