Georgetown University, an institution founded by Bishop John Carroll in 1789, who later became the archbishop of Baltimore, will offer a pornography course to students in the fall.
The course, “Understanding the Pornographic,” “examines the concept of ‘the pornographic’ in contemporary media and culture,” according to the course description.
“As students learn about the changing aesthetics, production, and distribution of pornography as a media genre that spans human history, they will also understand ‘the pornographic’ as a concept that exceeds sexuality and connotes excess and inappropriate affect more generally, as seen in popular designations like ‘food porn’ and ‘house porn’ on social media, ‘warporn’ and ‘poverty porn’ in discussions of the news media, ‘inspiration porn’ in disability studies, and more,” the description adds.
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The description also says the course will “pay special attention to the social and political conflicts that attend pornography and the pornographic, particularly as these conflicts have been used to control marginalized populations including women, queer and trans folks, and people of color.”
The syllabus for the class is not posted on the course details page on Georgetown’s website, but instead instructs students to email Amanda Phillips, an associate professor in the Department of English, to obtain the course details.
On her personal website, Phillips says she “writes about sex, death, identity, and politics in video games, with a particular emphasis on centering the insights of queer women of color feminism in the study of technology. Their interests more broadly are in issues of racial and gender justice in and around technoculture, popular media, and the digital humanities.”
Her personal website also describes her as a “butch/transmasculine, Latinx, first-generation college graduate who is here to leverage their White-passing privilege and institutional resources for the revolution. @ them to collaborate or make trouble.”
She is the author of “Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture,” as well as the co-editor of the “Queer/Trans/Digital” book series with NYU Press.
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Georgetown University and Phillips did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
