N穩 Dh繳ill (German, Durham U.) seeks to disengage the concept of utopia from current political debates, to historicize it, to relocate it within literary and imaginative practices, and to relate
some of its problematic and thought-provoking aspects to other discourses and debates. She is particularly interested in how the bodies of characters in even the most radically alternative
utopias continue to be gendered in order to reproduce themselves and perpetuate the society. She considers utopian imagination as a critical space, from utopian crisis to dystopian response,
utopian constructions of sexual difference, nurture and nature as social critique, utopias of the Dionysian, from pedagogical province to primitivist utopia, and utopias of postmodernity.
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