Don Varn Lowman, M.A., MBA
Senior Lecturer
Contact
Room 2-027, Rabinstraße 8, 53111 Bonn
Phone: +49 (0)228 73 5727
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Web: https://www.facebook.com/IAAKQueerStudies/
Office Hours:
Please email me for an appointment.
Courses this term
- Regional Studies North America
- Lecture series on race, gender, and current social movements
- Language Skills II
Lectures & Exchanges
- March 2016: one week of teaching at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (Jacobites and The Protestant Reformation)
- November 2016: one week of teaching at the University of Turku, Finland (Queer Theory and Literature)
- March 2017: one week of teaching at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (Mary Queen of Scots and the Jacobite Uprisings)
- September 2017: Krost Symposium at Texas Lutheran University (The New Super Heroes: Minority Representation in Comics)
- September 2017: Texas Lutheran University course on Queer Studies and Politics
- February 2020: one week of teaching at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (The Arts and Propaganda during the Reformation, Jacobite Risings, and The Troubles).
Research Interests
- Queer Theory and Gender Studies
- Comics
- Poverty and Youth Homelessness
- Alternative Histories and Subcultures
- (Native) American History and Literatures
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
Organizations & Memberships
- New Avenues for Youth, Ambassador Board Member (http://newavenues.org)
- LBST Uni Bonn, Event Partner (http://www.lesbischwul-bonn.de)
- ACLU, Member (https://www.aclu.org)
- SPLC, Friend of the Center (https://www.splcenter.org)
Education
- Master of Business Administration University of North Florida
- MA Intercultural Communications University of Provence Aix-Marseille
- BA International Business University of North Florida
Past Courses
- Gender, Sexuality, and Music
- Queer Theory: Where the Wilde Things Are: Contesting Heteronormativity and Performativity in Poetry and Drama
- Contemporary Female Thinkers Changing the World
- Graphic Reality: The Politics of Comics
- Unicorns and Hijras: Representations of Asexual and Transgender Identities
- Queer Cinema
- Queer Britain
- What the Fuck is Queer Theory?
- "Beyond the Pale (Male)”: Minority Representation in Comics
- The Troubled Self: Explorations of Pain across North American Landscapes
- The Hague and Crossing Border Excursion
- Regional Studies North America - Lecture
- Regional Studies North America: The American South - Tutorial
- Mechanics/Language Skills II
- Language Toolkit/Language Skills I
- Regional Studies Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lecture
- Regional Studies Scotland: Scottish Culture - Tutorial
- Scotland Excursion
- Literature and Culture of the Pacific Northwest
- Language Skills III - Debate
- Business