WGS Lecture Series Presents Dr. Hentyle Yapp

Dr. Hentyle Yapp is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of California, San Diego, where he specializes in transnational art and performance studies, ethnic studies, disability studies and gender and sexuality studies. Dr. Yapp is the author of multiple publications, including the book Minor China (Duke 2021), which reconsiders the all-too-common narratives about Chinese art that celebrate the heroic artist who embodies political resistance against the authoritarian state. These narratives prevent Chinese art, aesthetics, and politics from being discussed in the West outside the terms of Western liberalism and notions of the universal. Instead Yapp offers an innovative methodological and theoretical position the minor as a means to engage transnationally that neither dismisses nor centers, but instead reconfigures traditional assumptions around who and what is marked as major.